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CONTAINING A LIST OF THE NATIONAL OFFICERS AND
NATIONAL COMMITTEES ? A COPY OF THE NATIONAL
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS} A LIST OF THE VARIOUS
STATE OFFICERS j THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL
CONGRESS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D, C, ON APRIL 30,
AND MAY1 AND 2,1902? AND A LIST OF THE MEMBERS
WHO HAVE JOINED THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR 1902,
COMPILED BY
CHARLES WALDO HASKINS.
SECRETARY GENERAL.
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Hon. EDWIN WARFJELD
President-General
EDWIN WARFIELD,
President-General National Society.
Edwin Warfield, son of Albert Gallatin Warfield and Margaret
Gassaway (Watkins) Warfield, was born at "Oakdale," Howard
County, Md., May 7, 1848. Richard Warfield, the immigrant and
progenitor of the Warfield family in America, came to Maryland
in 1662 from Berkshire, England. The Warfields were prominent
in Colonial affairs, and participated in the patriotic movements
which led up to the Revolution and the independence of the
Colonies.
The subject of this sketch has descent from many other noted
immigrants who settled in Maryland prior to 1700. Among them
were Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, ''Keeper of the Seal" and Act-
ing Governor under Copley, 1692 ; Captain John Worthington,
Member of "The Quorum," Member of the House of Burgesses,
and Captain of Severn Militia ; Colonel Nicholas Gassaway, Mem-
ber of the Upper House of Lord Baltimore's Council and Deputy
Governor ; Colonel Henry Ridgely, Justice of the Provincial Court,
Member of Lower House, Captain of "The Foote;" Matthew
Howard, who was of the Norfolk Howards; John Bowies, Sr.,
progenitor of the Bowie family in Maryland ; William Griffith, im-
migrant ancestor of the Girffiths of Mayland; Captain Thomas
Claggett, Captain of British Navy; Major-General John Ham-
mond, Justice of Provincial Court, 1667, Member of the Council,
1698, Member of the Court of Admiralty; Major John Welsh,
Member of "The Quorum," 1671, High Sheriff of A. A. Co.,
1 676- 1 678; Colonel Edward Dorsey, Judge of High Court of
Chancery, 1695, Member of House of Burgesses, and others. He
has double descent from a majority of these immigrant ancestors.
Edwin Warfield's great-grandfather, Benjamin Warfield, was
commissioned Captain of the Elkridge Militia in 1778. His
mother's father, Colonel Gassaway Watkins, was a distinguished
Revolutionary soldier, who served seven years and nine months in
the "Old Maryland Line." He entered the army at Long Island in
January, 1776, as Sergeant, and was mustered out at the close of
the war in 1783 with the rank of Captain. He was in nearly every
hard-fought battle of the war. In a sketch of his services, written
by himself (the original preserved), he refers specially to Long
Island, White Plains, Germantown, Monmouth, Camden, Guilford
Court House, Second Camden, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs,
and says he was toasted by General Greene at a public dinner on
the High Hills of Santee for his bravery, and that he was fre-
quently in the vanguard and was often sent by General Greene on
important scouting tours. After the war he lived the life of a
planter at "Walnut Grove," Maryland, but responded a second
time to the call of his country during the War of 1812. He was
then made Colonel and assigned to command at Annapolis. He
was at the time of his death, July 14, 1840, President of the Mary-
land Society of the Cincinnati, and the last surviving officer of the
"Maryland Line," "The Bayonets of the Revolutionary Army."
Edwin Warfield received only an academic education. His col-
legiate course was cut short by the Civil War, which resulted in
the loss of his father's slaves and the means necessary for college
expenses. He qualified himself for teaching, which he began at
the age of eighteen years, and at the same time took up the study
of law. He prosecuted both successfully, and found time to take
an interest in public affairs. In 1874 he was appointed Register
of Wills of Howard County, to fill a vacancy, and in 1875 was
elected for a full term of six years. This was one of the most re-
sponsible offices in the gift of the people of his native county. He
declined a renomination and began the practice of law, and was,
in 1881, elected State Senator. In 1882 he bought "The Ellicott
City Times," which he edited in connection with the practice of
law. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1883, and was made Presi-
dent of the Session of 1886. Mr. Cleveland appointed him Sur-
veyor of the Port of Baltimore in 1886, which position he held
until May, 1890, when he organized the Fidelity and Deposit
Company of Maryland, of which he is still President. It is the
largest Surety Company in the world.
He has always taken an interest in public affairs, and has been
prominently identified with the Democratic party of Maryland ;
was a Delegate-at-Large to the National Convention in 1896.
Mr. Warfield is connected with many institutions in Maryland.
He is a director of the Maryland Penitentiary, the Board of Trade
of Baltimore, the Continental Trust Company, the Central Savings
Bank, the "Daily Record" Company, the Maryland Dredging
Company, the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank, all of
Baltimore ; The City Trust Company of New York and the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of Montgomery County, Maryland, and
other business corporations in the City and State.
He is a member of many patriotic, professional and social asso-
ciations, such as the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland
Society Sons of the Revolution, the Maryland Society S. A. R., the
Society of the War of 1812, the American Bar Association, the
Baltimore and Maryland Bar Associations, also a member of the
leading social clubs and organizations in Baltimore.
He married, in 1885, Emma Nicodemus, a daughter of a lead-
ing merchant of Baltimore, whose ancestors settled in Cumberland
Valley, Pennsylvania, about 1700. They have four children —
Carrie, 1887; Louise, 1888; Edwin, Jr., 1891, and Emma, 1899.
List of National Officers,
For the Years 1889 to 1891
General Officers Elected at New York, April 30th, 1889.
President General Lucius P. Deming
Vice-President General for Alabama Major G. B. West
Vice-President General for Arkansas Col. S. W. Williams
Vice-President General for California Col. A. S. Hubbard
Vice-President General for Connecticut Maj. J. C. Kinney
Vice-President General for Delaware A. J. Woodman
Vice-President General for Illinois Bishop C. E. Cheney
Vice-President General for Indiana Hon. Wm. E. English
Vice-President General for Kentucky Hon. S. B. Buckner
Vice-President General for Maine Hon. C H. Denison
Vice-President General for Maryland Rev. John G. Morris, D. D.
Vice-President General for Massachusetts Hon. E. S. Barrett
Vice-President General for Michigan Wm. H. Brearley
Vice-President General for Minnesota Hon. John B. Sanborn
Vice-President General for Missouri Hon. D. R. Francis
Vice-President General for New Hampshire Hon. H. K. Slayton
Vice-President General for New Jersey Hon. Robt. S. Green
Vice-President General for New York Hon. Wm. H. Arnoux
Vice-President General for Ohio Hon. R. B. Hayes
Vice-President General for Rhode Island Hon. E. B. Andrews
Vice-President General for South Carolina Hon. Wade Hampton
Vice-President General for Tennessee Dr. D. C. Kelly
Vice-President General for Vermont Hon. W. P. Dillingham
Vice-President General for Virginia Hon. Fitzhugh Lee
Vice-President General for West Virginia Hon. John J. Jacob
Vice-President General for Wisconsin Hon. Wm. D. Hoard
Vice-President General for District of Columbia. .. .Admiral D. D. Porter
Vice-President General for France Edmond de Lafayette
Secretary General Lieut. J. C. Cresap
Assistant Secretary General Chas. J. King
Assistant Secretary General Wilson J. Gill
Assistant Secretary General Wm. F. Cregar
Treasurer General James Otis
Registrar General L L. Tarbell
Chaplain General Rev. Timothy Dwight
NATIONAL SOCIETY
General Officers Elected at Louisville, Ky., April 30th, 1890.
President General Hon. Wm. Seward Webb
Honorary Vice-President General Admiral David D. Porter
Honorary Vice-President General Joseph E. Johnston
Hororary Vice-President General Hon. Edwin S. Barrett
Vice-President General Hon. Lucius P. Deming
Vice-President General Gov. Simon B. Buckner
Vice-President General Hon. Wm. H. Arnoux
Vice-President General Josiah C. Pumpelly
Vice-President General Dr. G. Browne Goode
Secretary General Lieut. James C. Cresap, U. S. N.
Treasurer General James Otis
Registrar General Luther L. Tarbell
Historian General Wm. Francis Cregar
Surgeon General Wm. Trornton Parker, M. D.
Chaplain General Rt. Rev. Ghas. E. Cheney. D. D.
General Officers Elected at Hartford, Conn., April 30th, 1891.
President General Hon. Wm. Seward Webb
Active Vice-President General Gen. Horace Porter
Active Vice-President General Hon. Jonathan Trumbull
Active Vice-President General Gen. Bradley T. Johnson
Active Vice-President General Judge Albert Edgerton
Active Vice-President General Col. Champion S. Chase
Honorary Vice-President General Rear Admiral Worden, U. S. N.
Hororary Vice-President General Luther L. Tarbell
Honorary Vice-President General Wm. Wirt Henry
Secretary General Lieut. James C. Cresap, U. S. N.
Treasurer General James Otis
Chaplain General Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D.
Registrar General Dr. G. Browne Goode
Surgeon General Dr. Chas. E. Briggs
Historian General Henry Hall
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 7
General Officers Elected at New York City, April 30th, 1892.
President General Gen. Horace Porter
Vice-President General Hon. Jonathan Trumbull
Vice-President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. Henry M. Shepard
Vice-President General Gen. T. S. Peck
Vice-President General Paul Revere
Honorary Vice-President General Hon. Chauncey M. Depew
Honorary Vice-President General Hon. Thos. F. Bayard
Honorary Vice-President General Gen. Bradley T. Johnson
Secretary General A. Howard Clark
Registrar General Dr. G. Browne Goode
Historian General Henry Hall
Surgeon General Dr. Aurelius Bowen
Chaplain General..... Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D.
General Officers Elected at Chicago, III., June 16th, 1893. . .
President General Gen. Horace Porter
Vice-President General Hon. Chauncey M. Depew
Vice-President General Hon. Henry M. Shepard
Vice-President General Col. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. Henry C. Robinson
Secretary General Hon. Franklin Murphy
Treasurer General Chas. W. Haskins
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General Henry Hall
Chaplain General Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D.
General Officers Elected at Washington, D. C, April 30th, 1894.
President General Gen. Horace Porter
Vice-President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Col. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Col. Wm. Ridgely Griffith
Vice-President General Hon. Edwin S. Barrett
Vice-President General Hon. John Whitehead
Secretary General Hon. Franklin Murphy
Treasurer General Chas. W. Haskins
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General Henry Hall
Chaplain General Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D.
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General Officers Elected at Boston, Mass., May 1st, 18$5.
President General Gen. Horace Porter
Vice-President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Col. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. Edwin Shepard Barrett
Vice-President General Hon. John Whitehead
Vice-President General Hon. Cushman K. Davis
Secretary General Hon. Franklin Murphy
Treasurer General Chas. W. Haskins
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General . Henry Hall
Chaplain General. Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D.
General Officers Elected at Richmond, Va., April 30th, 1896.
President General Gen. Horace Porter
Vice-President General .Col. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. Edwin S. Barrett
Vice-President General Hon. John Whitehead
Vice-President General Col. Wm. Rldgely Griffith
Vice-President General Hon. Wm. Wirt Henry
Secretary General Hon. Franklin Murphy
Treasurer General Chas. W. Haskins
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General Henry Hall
Chaplain General Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D.
General Officers Elected at Cleveland, Ohio, April 30th, 1897.
President General • . . . .Hon. Edwin Shepard Barrett
Vice-President General Col. Thomas M. Anderson. U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. John Whitehead
Vice-President General Hon. James M. Richardson
Vice-President General Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross
Vice-President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Secretary General Hon. Franklin Murphy
Treasurer General Chas. W. Haskins
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General Henry Hall
Chaplain General . .Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 9
General Officers Elected at Morristown, N. J., April 30th, 1898.
President General* Hon. Edwin Shepard Barrett
Vice-President General Hon. Franklin Murphy
Vice-President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Col. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. James M. Richardson
Vice-President General Hon. John Whitehead
Secretary General Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross
Treasurer General Chas. W. Haskins
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General Edwd. M. Gallaudet, LL. D.
Chaplain General Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D.
General Officers 'Elected at Detroit, Mich., May 2, 1899.
President General Hon. Franklin Murphy
Vice-President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. John Whitehead
Vice-President General Hon. Thos. W. Palmer
Vice-President General Hon. James H. Anderson
Secretary Genearl Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross
Treasurer General Charles Waldo Haskins
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General Edwd. M. Gallaudet, LD. D.
Chaplain General Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D.
General Officers Elected at New York City, May 1, 1900.
President General Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Col. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Vice-President General Hon. James H. Gilbert
Vice-President General Gen. Francis H. Appleton
Vice-President General Gen. Edwin S. Greeley
Vice-President General Hon. Howard DeHaven Ross
Secretary General Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross
Treasurer General Hon. Cornelius Amory Pugsley
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General Gen. Theodore S. Peck
Chaplain General Rev. Ethelbert D. Warfield, D. D.
*Died Dec. 21, 1898.
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General Officers . Elected at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1901.
President General Hon. Walter Seth Logan
Vice-President General Hon. James Denton Hancock
Vice-President General Hon. Thomas Pitts
Vice-President General Hon. Horace Davis
Vice-President General Hon. John Whitehead
Vice-President General Hon. George A. Pearre
Secretary General Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross
Treasurer General Hon. Cornelius Amory Pugsley
Registrar General A. Howard Clark
Historian General George Willliams Bates
Chaplain General Rev. Ethelbert D. Warfield. D. D.
NATIONAL SOCIETY
OF THE
Sons of the American Revolution,
General Officers,
President-General.
Hon. Edwin Warfield Baltimore, Md.
Vice-Presidents-General.
Hon. Cornelius Amory Pugsley New York, N. Y.
Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross Chicago, 111.
Hon. Noble D. Larner Washington, D. C.
Hon. Howard DeHaven Ross Wilmington, Del.
Col. Albert J. Logan Pittsburg, Penn.
Secretary-General.
Charles Waldo Haskins New York, N. Y.
Treasurer-General.
Nathan Warren Boston, Mass.
Registrar-General.
A. Howard Clark Washington, D. C.
Historian-General.
George Williams Bates Detroit, Mich.
Chaplain-General.
Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D Detroit, Mich.
12 NATIONAL SOCIETY
THE GENERAL BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE
NATIONAL SOCIETY.
Hon. Edwin Warfield, President General, Baltimore, Md.
Hon. Cornelius Amory Pugsley, Vice-President General, New
York.
Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross, Vice-President General, Chicago, 111.
Hon. Noble D. Larner, Vice-President General, Washington, D. C.
Hon. Howard DeHaven Ross, Vice-President General, Wilming-
ton, Del.
Col. Albert J. Logan, Vice-President General, Pittsburg, Pa.
Charles Waldo Haskins, Secretary General, New York.
Nathan Warren, Treasurer General, Boston, Mass.
A. Howard Clark, Registrar General, Washington, D. C.
George Williams Bates, Historian General, Detroit, Mich.
Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D., Chaplain General, Detroit, Mich.
Col. P. P. Parker, President Arizona Society, Phoenix, Ariz.
Dr. Charles E. Nash, President Arkansas Society, Little Rock,
Ark.
William J. Dutton, President California Society, San Francisco,
Cal.
Frank M. Keezer, Acting President Colorado Society, Denver,
Col.
Hon. Jonathan Trumbull, President Connecticut Society, Nor-
wich, Conn.
Hon. Spotswood Garland, President Delaware Society, Wilming-
ton, Del.
Hon. Noble D. Larner, President District of Columbia Society,
Washington, D. C.
Hon. John C. Avery, President Florida Society, Pensacola, Fla.
Gen. Horace Porter, President Society in France, Paris, France.
Hon. Frank Stanwood Dodge, President Hawjaiian Society,
Honolulu, H. I.
Albert E. Snow, President Illinois Society, Chicago, Illinois.
William E. English, President Indiana Society, Indianapolis, Ind.
Herman Knapp, President Iowa Society, Ames, Iowa.
G. F. Kimball, President Kansas Society, Topeka, Kansas.
George Twyman Wood, President Kentucky Societv, Louisville,
Ky.
E. S. Stoddard, President Louisiana Society, New Orleans, La.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1.3
Leslie C. Cornish, President Maine Society, Augusta, Me.
Hon. Edwin Warfield, President Maryland Society, Baltimore,
Md.
Francis Henry Brown, M. D., President Massachusetts Society,
Boston, Mass.
Alfred Russell, President Michigan Society, Detroit, Mich.
Hon. Edward C. Stringer, President Minnesota Society, St. Paul,
Minn.
Clark H. Sampson, President Missouri Society, St. Louis, Mo.
Henry N. Blake, President Montana Society, Helena, Mont.
L. P. Funkhouser, President Nebraska Society, Lincoln, Neb.
Hon. Henry M. Baker, President New Hampshire Society, Bow
Mills, N. H.
Hon. John Whitehead, President New Jersey Society, Morris-
town, N. J.
Walter Seth Logan, President Empire State Society, New York
City.
Millard F. Anderson, President Ohio Society, Akron, Ohio.
Hon. George H. Williams, President Oregon Society, Portland,
Ore.
William L. Jones, President Pennsylvania Society, Pittsburg, Pa.
Henry Van Amburgh Joslin, President Rhode Island Society,
Providence, R. I.
Frederick A. Haines, President South Dakota Society, Dead-
wood, S. D.
Col. A. S. Colyar, President Tennessee Society, Nashville, Tenn.
Hon. Ira Hobart Evans, President Texas Society, Austin, Tex.
Frank B. Stephens, President Utah Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Fletcher D. Proctor, President Vermont Society, Proctor, Vt.
Hon. Lunsford L. Lewis, President Virginia Society, Rich-
mond, Va.
George Hunt Walker, President Washington Society, Seattle,
Wash.
Dr. William M. Farr, President Wisconsin Society, Kenosha,
Wis.
The Executive Committee.
Hon. Edwin Warfield, of Maryland.
Harold D. Underwood, of Wisconsin.
Hon. Morris B. Beardsley, of Connecticut.
W. W. J. Warren, of New York.
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Hon. Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey.
Gen. Francis H. Appleton, of Massachusetts.
Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge, of District of Columbia.
Hon. James Denton Hancock, of Pennsylvania.
Charles Waldo Haskins, of New York.
Past Presidents-General.
Lucius P. Deming, of Connecticut.
Elected at the Congress held in New York City, April 30, 1889.
Dr. William Seward Webb, of Vermont.
Elected at the Congress held in Louisville, April 30, 1890, and
re-elected at the Congress held in Hartford, April 30, 1891.
General Horace Porter, LL. D., of New York.
Elected at the Congress held in New York, April 30, 1892, and
re-elected at the Congresses held in Chicago, June 16, 1893 ; in
Washington, April 30, 1894; in Boston, May 1, 1895, and in
Richmond, April 30, 1896.
Hon. Edwin Shepard Barrett, of Massachusetts.
Elected at the Congress held in Cleveland, April 30, 1897, and
re-elected at the Congress held in Morristown, April 30, 1898.
Died in office Dec. 21, 1898.
Hon. Franklin Murphy, of Newi Jersey.
Succeeded to the office upon the death of Hon. Edwin Shep-
ard Barrett, in 1898, and elected at the Congress held in Detroit,
May 2, 1899.
Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge, U. S. A., of Washington, D. C.
Elected at the Congress held in New York City, April 30 and
May 1, 1900.
Hon. Walter Seth Logan, of New York.
Elected at the Congress held in Pittsburg, Pa., April 30, and
May 1, 1901.
Honorary Past Presidents.
Col. A. S. Hubbard, Past President California Society.
Made Honorary Past President General by unanimous vote
of the Congress held in Louisville, April 30, 1890.
Gen. Albert M. Winn, Past President California Society.
Made Honorary Past President General by vote of the Con-
gress held in New York City, April 30, 1892.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1 5
NATIONAL COMMITTEES OF THE SONS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
National Committee on National Parks.
Hon. Spotswood Garland, Wilmington, Dela., Chairman.
Gen. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A., State Soldiers' Home, Erie
Co., Ohio.
Charles B. Tiernan, Secretary, 20 East Lexington St., Balti-
more, Md.
Lloyd B. Christy, Phoenix, Arizona.
Joseph M. Hill, Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
George W. Spencer, 514 California St., San Francisco, Cal.
William F. Slocum, D. D., Colorado Springs, Colo.
Franklin H. Hart, New Haven, Conn.
Gen. Henry V. Boynton, Washington, D. C.
W. O. H. Shepard, Pensacola, Fla.
Hon. Frank E. Hyde, 32 Avenue de L'Opera, Paris, France.
George R. Carter, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Prof. John H. Loomis, 222 Ashland Ave., Chicago, 111.
Adolph Rogers, New Castle, Ind.
Hon. George Herbert Richardson, Belmont, Iowa.
Elwood Davis Kimball, Wichita, Kan.
R. C. Ballard Thruston, Louisville, Ky.
David Thomas Merrick, Merrick, La.
James A. Garland, Biddeford, Me.
Rear Admiral George E. Belknap, U. S. N., State House, Bos-
ton, Mass.
Rev. R. W. Clark, D. D., 49 Erskine St., Detroit, Mich.
Hon. Hiram F. Stevens, St. Paul, Minn.
Dr. T. Griswold Comstock, 3401 Washington Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
William McDowell, Butte, Mont.
John R. Webster, Board of Trade Bldg., Omaha, Neb.
Charles E. Staniels, Concord, N. H.
Dr. Dowling Benjamin, Camden, N. J.
Edward Hagaman Hall, 285 Lexington Ave., New York City.
Judge E. M. P. Brister, Newark, Ohio.
Gen. Charles F. Beebe, Portland, Ore.
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Col. J. S. Du Shane, New, Castle, Pa.
Edward Field, City Hall, Providence, R. I.
Hon. E. W. Martin, Deadwood, S. D.
Gen. G. P. Thruston, Nashville, Tenn.
Col. John W. French, 226. Infantry, U. S. A., Texas.
Hon. Heber E. Wells, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Gen. Julius Jacob Estey, Brattleboro, Vt.
Hon. Virginius Newton, 1st National Bank, Richmond, Va.
Col. S. W. Scott, Seattle, Wash.
Hon. Oliver Clyde Fuller, Milwaukee, Wis.
National Committee on Legislation.
Hon. James H. Gilbert, Chairman, Garden City Banking and
Trust Co., Chicago, 111.
Albert Judson Fisher, Secretary, 604 Masonic Temple, Chicago.
Rev. Lewis Halsey, D. D., Phoenix, Ariz.
James P. Eagle, Little Rock, Ark.
Hon. Geo. C. Perkins, 10 Market St., San Francisco, Cal., and
U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C.
Prof. Geo. L. Cannon, Jr., E. Denver High School, Denver, Colo.
Hon. Nehemiah D. Sperry, New Haven, Conn.
Hon. L. Irving Handy, Ford Building, Wilmington, Del.
Gen. Jos. Wheeler, U. S. A., Washington, D. C.
S. M. Cross, Pensacola, Fla.
Edward P. McLean, Vice Consul, 36 Avenue de L'Opera, Paris,
France.
William A. Kinney, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hon. Henry Sherman Boutell, 24 Walton Place, Chicago, and
Washington, D. C.
Austin F. Denny, Indianapolis, Ind.
Judge Joseph Crockett Mitchell, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Hon. George D. Hale, Topeka, Kan.
Hon. Arthur M. Rutledge, Louisville, Ky.
Hon. Taylor Beattie, New Orleans, La.
Hon. Josiah H. Drummond, Portland, Me.
Hon. George A. Pearre, Cumberland, Md., and Washington, D. C.
Hon. Edward K. Sanderson, Lynn, Mass.
Hon. Alfred Russell, Newberry Building, Detroit, Mich.
Hon. Ell Torrence, Minneapolis, Minn.
Gen. G. H. Shields, 612 Rialto Building, St. Louis, Mo.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION If
J. C. Auld, Helena, Mont.
Edward M. Bartlett, New York Life Building, Omaha, Neb.
Hon. Henry W. Blair, Washington, D. C.
Gen. James F. Rusling, Trenton, N. J.
Hon. Hiram R. Steele, 32 Liberty St., New York City, N. Y.
Hon. Tod B. Galloway, Columbus, Ohio.
Hon. Stephen A. Lowell, Pendleton, Ore.
Col. Chambers McKibben, Du Quesne Club, Pittsburg, Pa.
Hon. George Corlis Nightingale, 54 N. Main St., Providence, R. I.
Hon. E. W. Martin, Deadwood, S. D., and Washington, D. C.
Lewis R. Eastman, Nashville, Tenn.
Hon. Robert G. West, Austin, Tex.
Hon. Hoyt Sherman, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Col. Fletcher D. Proctor, Proctor, Vt.
Hon. Samuel H. Pulliam, Richmond, Va.
Hon. John L. Wilson, Spokane, Wash., and U. S. Senate, Wash-
ington, D. C.
Hon. George H. Noyes, Milwaukee, Wis.
National Committee on Revolutionary Monuments.
Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, Chairman, New Haven, Conn.
Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, Secretary, Norwalk, Conn.
Major Lewis W. Coggins, Phoenix, Ariz.
P. K. Roots, Little Rock, Ark.
Col. A. S. Hubbard, 2012 Pierce St., San Francisco, Cal.
Dr. H. T. Dodge, Denver, Colo.
Caleb P. Johnson, Wilmington, Del.
Bernerd R. Green, Washington, D. C.
C. A. Choate, Pensacola, Fla.
Hon. G. de Sahune-Lafayette, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris,,
France.
Frank S. Dodge, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Col. John Conant Long, Marquette Building, Chicago, 111.
Gustavus V. Menzies, Mt. Vernon, Ind.
Hon. Herman Knapp, Ames, Iowa.
Nathan Frank Handy, Topeka, Kans.
Hon. C. B. Robinson, Louisville, Ky.
Edward Clinton Stoddard, New Orleans, La.
Hon. Nathan Goold, Portland, Me. I
Col. William Ridgly Griffith, Baltimore, Md.
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Capt. Nathan Appleton, Boston, Mass.
Hon. Thomas Pitts, Campau Building, Detroit, Mich.
Hon. Henry A. Castle, Treasury Dept., Washington, D. C.
Hon. Isaac N. Mason, 3743 West Pine Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.
Hon. H. N. Blake, Helena, Mont.
Lucius D. Prichards, Fremont, Neb.
Fred. G. Hartshorn, Manchester, N. H.
Frederick Parker, Freehold, N. J.
Hon. Trueman G. Avery, Buffalo, N. Y.
Col. William Leontes Curry, Columbus, Ohio.
L. A. Lewis, Portland, Ore. j
Col. J. S. Du Shane, New Castle, Pa.
Alfred Stone, 49 Westminster St., Providence, R. I.
Hon. E. W. Martin, Deadwood, S. D.
Roger Eastman, Nashville, Tenn.
Hon. Robert G. West, Austin, Tex.
L. H. Farnsworth, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Gen. John G. McCullough, North Bennington, Vt.
Hon. Samuel H. Pulliam, Richmond, Va.
Arthur S. Gibbs, Seattle, Wash.
Col. William Wolcott Strong, Kenosha, Wis.
National Press Committee.
Col. Moulton Houk, Chairman, Toledo, Ohio.
Hiram P. Crouse, Secretary, Toledo, Ohio.
Gen. H. F. Robinson, Phoenix, Ariz.
L. C. Balch, Little Rock, Ark.
Hon. William Mitchell Bunker, Hotel Bella Vista, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.
Frank M. Keezer, Denver, Colo.
Charles G. Stone, Hartford, Conn.
Col. John Wainwright, Wilmington, Del.
Gen. Henry V. Boynton, Washington, D. C.
C. A. Choate, Pensacola, Fla.
Col. Ch. Chaille-Long, 25 Ave. Vineuse, Paris, France.
John Effinger, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Albert Judson Fisher, 604 Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111.
Hon. Robert Rockwell Hatcher, 1827 H St., Washington, D. C.
Hon. Harwood O. Whitney, Keokuk, Iowa.
Hon. G. F. Kimball, North Tooeka, Kan.
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Hon. Wallace Hughes, Courier- Journal, Louisville, Ky.
Charles Patton Dimitry, New Orleans, La.
Hon. Francis L. Littlefield, Portland, Me.
Samuel C. Rowland, Port Deposit, Md.
Herbert W. Kimball, 28 State St., Boston, Mass.
Joseph Greusel, care of Detroit Journal, Detroit, Mich.
Hon. Harland P. Hall, St. Paul, Minn.
Hon. Edwin HarrisonLj3747 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo.
E. C. Russell, Helena, Mont.
Clement Chase, Omaha, Neb.
Rev. Howard F. Hill, Concord, N. H.
Gabriel W. Thorne, Newark, N. J.
Edward Hagaman Hall, 265 Lexington Ave., New York City.
Wm. B. Baldwin, Akron, Ohio.
Dr. W. E. Carll, Oregon City, Ore.
Col. John P. Penney, 316 North Ave., West Allegheny, Pa.
Isaac H. Southwick, P. O. Box 1322, Providence, R. I.
Hon. E. W. Martin, Deadwood, S. D.
J. P. Williams, Nashville, Tenn.
Hon. William F. Beers, Galveston, Texas.
Col. John Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Col. Frank L. Greene, St. Albans, Vt.
William Macfarlane Jones, Richmond, Va.
Augustus V. Bell, Seattle, Wash.
Hon. G. P. Sticknev, Milwaukee, Wis.
National Committee on Advancement.
Hon. John Goode, Chairman, 1425 New York Ave., Washington,
D. C.
John Paul Earnest, Secretary, Columbian Building, Washington,
D. C.
Dr. J. W. Bayne, 116 Second St., Washington, D. C.
Col. A. J. Logan, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dr. E. M. Gallaudet, Kendall Green, Washington, D. C.
Gen. T. S. Peck, Burlington, Vt.
Col. M. M. Parker, 1418 F St., Washington, D. C.
Nathan Warren, Waltham, Mass.
W. V. Cox, National Museum, Washington, D. C.
Col. Ralph E. Prime, Yonkers, N. Y.
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Gen. George M. Sternberg, U. S. A.,. War Department, Washing-
ton, D. C.
Bernard R. Green, 1738 N St., Washington, D. C.
Gen. H. V. Boynton, 1321 R St., Washington, D. C.
National Recruiting and Lookout Committee
Gen. T. M. Vincent, Chairman, 1221 N St., N. W., Washington,
D. C.
W. L. Marsh, Secretary, 1303 Q St., Washington, D. C.
Walter S. Logan, New York City, N. Y.
Noble D. Larner, 918 F St., Washington, D. C.
Capt. Charles U. Williams, Richmond, Va.
Hon. L. I. Handy, Wilmington, Del.
Hon. John B. Wight, 1767 Q St., Washington, D. C.
Col. Felix A. Reeve, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.
Rev. E. D. Warfield, D. D., Chaplain-General, Easton, Pa.
Hon. C. D. Walcott, Director Geological Survev, Washington,
D. C.
George T. Wood, Louisville, Ky.
Gen. Joseph L. Brent, Baltimore, Md.
Hon. Ira H. Evans, Austin, Texas.
National Auditing Committee.
Gen. Francis H. Appleton, Chairman, 53 State St., Boston, Mass.
Nathan Warren, Waltham, Mass.
H. D. Sellers, Pittsburgh, Pa.
National Flag Committee.
Col. Ralph Earl Prime, Chairman, Yonkers, N. Y.
Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, Norwalk, Conn.
Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A., Washington, D. C.
Rt. Rev. Charles Edward Cheney, Chicago, 111.
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Nahant, Mass.
Gen. George H. Shields, St. Louis, Mo.
Gen. Horatio C. King, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gen. Thomas Wilson, U. S. A., New York City.
Col. Lewis Cheesman Hopkins, New York City.
Edward Hagaman Hall, New York City.
Walter Seth Logan, New York City.
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Hon. John Whitehead, Morristown, N. J.
James H. Hoyt, Cleveland, Ohio.
National Committee on Correspondence.
Charles G. Stone, Chairman, Hartford, Conn.
Chauncy Curtiss, Colorado.
Hon. Edwin Warfield, Maryland.
National Finance Committee.
George Williams Bates, Chairman, Detroit, Mich.
George T. Wood, Kentucky.
William L. Jones, Pennsylvania.
National Committee on Organization.
Hon. James Harris Gilbert, Chairman, Chicago, 111.
Hon. John Whitehead, New Jersey.
Hon. B. H. Warner, District of Columbia.
National Committee on Unfinished Business.
Hon. James H. Anderson, Chairman, Ohio.
William W. J. Warren, New. York.
A. D. Bernard, Baltimore, Md.
Special Committee on Proposed National Memorial to
the Revolutionary Fathers, to be Erected in
Washington, D. C.
Brainard H. Warner, Chairman, 916 F St., Washington, D. C.
Wallace D. McLean, Secretary, 416 Fifth St., N. W., Washington,
D. C.
Rev. Lewis Halsey, D. D., Phoenix, Ariz.
Gen. H. F. Robinson, Phoenix, Ariz.
James P. Eagle, Little Rock, Ark.
L. C. Balch, Little Rock, Ark.
Hon. Geo. C. Perkins, 10 Market St., San Francisco, Cal.
Hon. William Mitchell Bunker, Hotel Bella Vista, San Francisco,
Cal.
Prof. Geo. L. Cannon, Jr., E. Denver High School, Denver, Colo.
Frank M. Keezer, Denver, Colo.
Hon. Nehemiah D. Sperry, New Haven, Conn.
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Charles G. Stone, Hartford, Conn.
Hon. L. Irving Handy, Ford Building, Wilmington, Del.
Col. John Wainwright, Wilmington, Del.
S. M. Cross, Pensacola, Fla.
C. A. Choate, Pensacola, Fla.
Austin F. Denny, Indianapolis, Ind.
Gustavus V. Menzies, Mt. Vernon, Ind.
Albert Judson Fisher, 604 Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111.
Col. John Conant Long, Marquette Bldg., Chicago, 111.
Judge Joseph Crockett Mitchell, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Hon. Harwood O. Whitney, Keokuk, Iowa.
Hon. George D. Hale, Topeka, Kan.
Hon. G. F. Kimball, North Topeka, Kan.
Hon. Arthur M. Rutledge, Louisville, Ky.
Hon. Wallace Hughes, Courier- Journal, Louisville, Ky.
Henry Warmoth Robinson, New Orleans, La.
Arthur Huntingdon Dicks, New Orleans, La.
Hon. Josiah H. Drummond, Portland, Me.
Hon. Francis L. Littlefield, Portland, Me.
Hon. George A. Pearre, Cumberland, Md.
Samuel C. Rowland, Port Deposit, Md.
Hon. Edward K. Sanderson, Lynn, Mass.
Herbert W. Kimball, 28 State St., Boston, Mass.
Hon. Alfred Russell, Newberry Building, Detroit, Mich.
Joseph Greusel, care Detroit Journal, Detroit, Mich.
Hon. Ell Torrence, Minneapolis, Minn.
Hon. Harland P. Hall, St. Paul, Minn.
Gen. G. H. Shields, 612 Rialto Building, St. Louis, Mo.
Hon. Edwin Harrison, 3747 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo.
J. C. Auld, Helena, Mont.
E. C. Russell, Helena, Mont.
Edward M. Bartlett, New York Life Building, Omaha, Neb.
Clement Chase, Omaha, Neb.
Hon. Henry W. Blair, Washington, D. C.
Rev. Howard F. Hill, Concord, N. H.
Gen. James S. Rusling, Trenton, N. J.
Gabriel W. Thorne, Newark, N. J.
Hon. Hiram R. Steele, 32 Liberty St., New York City.
Hon. Charles B. Provost, 58 West 129th St., New York City.
Hon. Tod B. Galloway, Columbus, Ohio.
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Hon. L. B. Wing, Newark, Ohio.
Hon. Stephen A. Lowell, Pendleton, Ore.
Dr. W. E. Carll, Oregon City, Ore.
Col. Chambers McKibben, Du Quesne Club, Pittsburg, Pa.
Col. John P. Penney, 316 North Ave., West Allegheny, Pa.
Hon. George Corlis Nightingale, 54 North Main St., Providence,
R. I.
Isaac H. Southwick, P. O. Box 1322, Providence, R. I.
Hon. E. W. Martin, Deadwood, S. D., and Washington, D. C.
Dr. William W. Torrence, Deadwood, S. D.
J. P. Williams, Nashville, Tenn.
Gen. G. P. Thruston, Nashville, Tenn.
Hon. William F. Beers, Galveston, Tex.
Hon. Robert G. West, Austin, Tex.
Col. John Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Hon. Hoyt Sherman, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Col. Frank L. Greene, St. Albans, Vt.
Col. Fletcher D. Proctor, Proctor, Vt.
William Macfarlane Jones, Richmond, Va.
Hon. Samuel H. Pulliam, Richmond, Va.
Augustus V. Bell, Seattle, Wash.
Hon. John L. Wilson, Spokane, Wash., and Washington, D. C.
Hon. G. P. Stickney, Milwaukee, Wis. >■
Hon. George H. Noyes, Milwaukee, Wis. ;
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CONSTITUTION
OF THE
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
ARTICLE I.— Name.
The name of this Society shall be "The Sons of the American Revo-
lution."
ARTICLE II.— Objects.
The objects of this Society shall be to perpetuate the memory of the men
who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution,
achieved the independence of the American people ; to unite and promote
fellowship among their descendants ; to inspire them and the community at
large with a more profound reverence for the principles of the government
founded by our forefathers ; to encourage historical research in relation to the
American Revolution ; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual
services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics and land-
marks ; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropriate memorials ; to
celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war : to foster true
patriotism ; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom ;
and to carry out the purposes expressed in the Preamble to the Constitution
of our Country and the injunctions of Washington in his Farewell Address
to the American people.
ARTICLE III.— Membership.
Section 1. Any man shall be eligible to membership in this Society
who, being of the age of twenty-one years or over, and a citizen of good repute
in the community, is the lineal descendant of an ancestor who was at all times
unfailing in his loyalty to, and rendered actual service in, the cause of Amer-
ican Independence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman or
minute man, in the armed forces of the Continental Congress or of any one
of the several Colonies or States ; or as a signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence ; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspondence : or as
a member of any Continental, Provincial or Colonial Congress or Legisla-
ture ; or as a civil officer, either of one of the Colonies or States or of the
National Government ; or as a recognized patriot who performed actual serv-
ice by overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain.
, Section 2. Applications for membership shall be made to any State
Society, in duplicate, upon blank forms prescribed by the General Board of
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Managers, and shall in each case set forth the name, occupation and residence
of the applicant, line of descent, and the name, residence and services of his
ancestor or ancestors in the Revolution, from whom he derives eligibility.
The applicant shall make oath that the statements of his application are true,
to the best of his knowledge and belief. Upon the approval of an application
by the State Society, to which it is made, one copy shall be transmitted to the
Registrar General of the National Society, who shall examine further the
eligibility of the applicant. If satisfied that the member is not eligible, he
shall return the application for correction. And in case of such return the
State Society shall, on failure to satisfy the Registrar General of the eligi-
bility of such applicant, drop his name from membership.
Section 3. The official designation of the members of the Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution shall be "Compatriots."
ARTICLE IV. — National and State Societies.
Section 1. The National Society shall embrace all the members of the
State Societies of the Sons of the American Revolution now existing or which
may hereafter be established under this Constitution.
Section 2. Whenever in any State or Territory in which a State
Society does not exist, or in which a State Society has become inactive or
failed for two years to pay its annual dues to the National Society, fifteen
oi more persons duly qualified for membership in this Society may associate
tbemselves as a State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and
organize in accordance with this Constitution, they may be admitted by the
General Board of Managers to the National Society as "The Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution," and shall thereafter have exclusive
local jurisdiction in the State or Territory or in the District in which they
are organized, subject to the provisions of this Constitution ; but this pro-
vision shall not be construed so as to exclude the admission of members living
in other States.
Section 3. Each State Society shall judge of the qualifications of its
members and of those proposed for membership, subject to the provisions of
this Constitution, and shall regulate all matters pertaining to its own affairs.
It shall have authority to establish local chapters within its own jurisdiction
and to endow the chapters with such power as it may deem proper, not in-
consistent with this Constitution. It shall have authority, after due notice
and impartial trial, to expel any member who, by conduct unbecoming a
gentleman, shall render himself unworthy to remain a member of the Society.
Section 4. Each State Society shall submit to the Annual Congress of
the National Society a report, setting forth by name the additions, transfers
and deaths, and any other changes in the membership and progress of the
State Society during the preceding year, and make such suggestions as it shall
deem proper for the promotion of the objects of the whole Order.
Section 5. Whenever a member in good standing in his Society changes
his residence from the jurisdiction of the State Society of which he is a mem-
ber to that of another, he shall be entitled, if he so elects, to a certificate of
honorable dismission from his own State Society, in order that he may be
transferred to the State Society to whose jurisdiction he has changed his resi-
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dence ; provided, that his membership shall continue in the former until he
shall have been elected a member of the latter. Each State Society shall,
however, retain full control of the admission of members by transfer.
Section 6. Whenever the word "State" occurs in this Constitution, it
shall be held to include within its meaning the District of Columbia and the
Territories of the United States.
Section 7. A Society may be formed in any foreign country by fifteen
or more persons who are eligible to membership under this Constitution, which
shall bear the same relation to the National organization as the State Society,
subject to the provisions of this Constitution.
ARTICLE V. — Officers and Managers.
Section 1. The General Officers of the National Society shall be a
President General, five Vice-Presidents General, a Secretary General, Treas-
urer General, Registrar General, Historian General and Chaplain General,
who shall be elected by ballot by a vote of the majority of the members
present at the annual meeting of the Congress of the National Society, and
shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected ; Provided,
that the President General and five Vice-Presidents General shall not be
elected for a second consecutive term.
Section 2. The General Officers, together with the Presidents of the
State Societies ex officio, shall constitute the General Board of Managers of
the National Society, which Board shall have authority to adopt and pro-
mulgate the By-Laws of the National Society, to prescribe the duties of the
General Officers, to provide the seal, to designate and make regulations for the
issue of the insignia, and to transact the general business of the National
Society during the intervals between the sessions of the Congress. Meetings
of the General Board may be held, after not less than ten days' notice, at the
call of the President General, or, in case of his absence or inability, at the call
of the Senior Vice-President General, certified by the Secretary General.
.Meetings shall be called at the request of seven members. At such meetings
seven shall constitute a quorum.
Section 3. An Executive Committee of seven, of whom the President
General shall be chairman, may be elected by the Board of Managers, which
Committee shall, in the interim between the meetings of the Board, transact
such business as may be delegated to it by the Board of Managers.
ARTICLE VL— Dues.
Each State Society shall pay annually to the Treasurer General, to de-
fray the expenses of the National Society, twenty-five cents for each active
member thereof, unless intermitted by the National Congress, provided that
the National Board of Management may increase said dues at any time, not
to exceed fifty cents in all, by a two-thirds vote, when the necessities of the
National Society so demand. All such dues shall be paid on or before the
first day of April in each year for the ensuing year, in order to secure repre-
sentation in the Congress of the National Society.
ARTICLE VII. — Meetings ane Elections.
Section 1. The Annual Congress of the National Society for the elec-
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tion of the General Officers and for the transaction of business shall be held
on the 30th day of April or on the first day of May in every year. The time,
hour and place of such meeting shall be designated by the Board of Man-
agers.
Section 2. Special meetings of the Congress may be called by the
President General, and shall be called by him when directed so to do by the
Board of Managers, or whenever requested in writing so to do by at least five
State Societies, on giving thirty days' notice, specifying the time and place of
such meeting and the business to be transacted.
Section 3. The following shall be members of all such annual or special
meetings of the Congress, and shall be entitled to vote therein :
(1) All the officers and the ex-Presidents General of the National
Society.
(2) The President and Senior Vice-President of each State Society.
(3) One delegate at large from each State Society.
(4) One delegate for every fifty members of the Society within a State
and for a fraction of twenty-five or over.
Section 4. State Societies shall be represented at meetings of the Na-
tional Society only by members of their own State Society, or by members
of other State Societies who may be designated by the regularly appointed
delegates from such State Society who may be present at any meeting of the
National Society ; and the delegates representing any State Society, as pro-
vided herein, shall be authorized to cast the entire vote to which such State
Society is entitled, each delegate or representative present being authorized
to cast his proportionate vote, or fraction thereof.
ARTICLE VIII.— Amendments.
This Constitution may be altered or amended at any meeting of the
Congress of the National Society, provided that sixty days' notice of the
proposed alterations or amendments, which shall first have been recom-
mended by a State Society, shall be sent by the Secretary General to the
President of each State Society. A vote of two-thirds of those present shall
be necessary to their adoption.
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BY-LAWS
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
ARTICLE I. — Election of Officers.
All nominations of officers shall be made from the floor, and the
election shall be by ballot. A majority shall elect. The nominations may
be acted upon directly, or may be referred to a committee to examine and
report.
ARTICLE II— Officers.
The duties of the General Officers shall be such as usually appertain to
their offices, and they shall have such other duties as are hereinafter im-
posed. They shall report at the annual meeting, and at such other times as
they may be required to do so by the General Board of Managers.
ARTICLE III.— President General.
Section 1. The President General, in addition to his general duties,
shall be ex officio chairman of the General Board of Managers and of the
Executive Committee, and a member of every other committee.
Section 2. At each Annual Meeting he shall appoint the following
Standing Committees :
Committee on Auditing,
" Correspondence,
" Credentials,
Finance,
" Organization,
" Unfinished Business.
The duties of the above committees shall be such as usually pertain to
committees of like character, and such as may be defined by the Board of
Managers.
ARTICLE IV. — Vice-Presidents General.
Section 1. In the absence of the President General, the Senior Vice-
President General present shall preside at the Annual Meeting.
Section 2. In the prolonged absence or inability to act of the President
General, the executive authority shall be vested in the Vice-President Gen-
eral first in order of precedence.
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ARTICLE V. — Secretary General.
The Secretary General, in addition to his general duties, shall have
charge of the seal, give due notice of all meetings of the National Society
or General Board of Managers, of which he shall be ex officio a member.
He shall give due notice to all general officers and State Societies of all
votes, orders and proceedings affecting or appertaining to their duties. He
shall distribute all pamphlets, circulars, rosettes and supplies, as directed by
the General Board of Managers.
ARTICLE VI.— Treasurer General.
Section 1. The Treasurer General shall collect and receive the funds
and securities of the National Society. He shall deposit the same to the
credit of the "Sons of the American Revolution," and shall draw them thence
for the use of the National Society, as directed by it or by the General
Board of Managers, upon the order of the President General, countersigned
by the Secretary General. His accounts shall be audited by a committee to
be appointed at the Annual Meeting.
Section 2. He shall, if so required by the General Board of Managers
or the Executive Committee, give bonds for the safe custody and application
of the funds.
ARTICLE VII. — Registrar General.
The Registrar General shall keep a Register of the names and dates of
the election, resignation or death of all members of the several State
Societies, and shall have the care and custody of all duplicate applications
for membership. He shall issue, upon the requisition of the Secretary or
Registrar of the several State Societies, certificates of membership and in-
signia to every member entitled thereto, through such Secretary or Regis-
trar.
ARTICLE VIII.— Historian General.
The Historian General shall have the custody of all the historical and
biographical collection of which the National Society may become possessed,
and shall catalogue and arrange the same, and shall place the same in a
fireproof repository for preservation.
ARTICLE IX. — Chaplain General.
The Chaplain General shall be a regularly ordained minister, and shall
open and close all general meetings of the National Society with the services
usual and proper on such occasions.
ARTICLE X. — State Societies.
Every State Society shall —
(1) Notify the Secretary General of the election and appointment of
all officers and delegates.
(2) Pay to the Treasurer General on the first day of March, or within
sixty days thereafter, the sum of twenty-five cents for each active member
thereof.
(3) Transmit to the Registrar General duplicate applications of all
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accepted members, and notify him of the resignation or death of all mem-
bers thereof.
ARTICLE XL — General Board of Managers.
Section 1. The General Board of Managers shall prepare and carry
out plans for promoting the objects and growth of the Society ; shall gen-
erally superintend its interests, and shall execute such other duties as shall
be committed to it at any meeting of the National Society. It shall have
charge of the printing of the Diploma and the manufacturing of the Insignia,
and shall determine the price at which the same shall be issued.
Section 2. It shall have authority to admit or reorganize as a State
Society any association of fourteen or more persons duly qualified for
membership in the Society.
Section 3. It shall have power to fill any vacancy occurring among
the General Officers, and an officer so elected shall act until the following
annual election and until his successor shall be elected.
Section 4. It shall have authority to make, alter and amend the By-
Laws as hereinafter provided.
Section 5. The President General may call meetings of the General
Board of Managers at any time he may deem necessary, and shall call such
meeting upon the written request of any five members thereof, provided
that not less than five days' notice of the time and place of such meeting
shall be given.
ARTICLE XII. — Executive Committee.
The President General may call a meeting of the Executive Committee
at any time, and shall call such meeting on the written request of three
members thereof.
ARTICLE XIII. —Seal.
The seal of the Society shall be two and three-eighths of an inch in diam-
eter, charged with the figure of a minute-man, grasping a musket in his
right hand, and surrounded by a constellation of thirteen stars, who shall be
depicted in the habit of a husbandman of the period of the American Revo-
lution, and as in the act of deserting the plough for the service of his country ;
the whole encircled by a band three-eighths of an inch wide, within which
shall appear the legend, "National Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, organized April 30, 1889."
ARTICLE XIV.— Certificates.
All members of this Society, wherever admitted, shall be entitled to a
certificate of membership duly attested by the President General, Secretary
General and Registrar General, countersigned by the President, Secretary
and Registrar of the State Society to which such member shall have been
admitted.
ARTICLE XV.— Insignia.
The insignia of the Society shall comprise (1) a cross surmounted by an
eagle in gold, (2) a rosette.
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Section 1. The cross shall be of silver, with four arms, covered with
white enamel and eight gold points, same size as a Chevaliers' Cross of the
Legion of Honor of France, with a gold medallion in the center bearing on
the obverse a bust of Washington in profile, and on the reverse the figure
of a minute-man, surrounded by a ribbon enameled blue, with the motto :
"Libertas et Patria" on the obverse, and the legend "Sons of the American
Revolution" on the reverse, both in letters of gold. The cross shall be sur-
mounted by an eagle in gold, and the whole decoration suspended from a
ring of gold by a ribbon of deep blue, with white and buff edges, and may
be worn by any member of the Society on ceremonial occasions only, and
shall be carried on the left breast, or at the collar if an officer of the National
Society, or the President, active or past, of a State Society.
Section 2. The rosette shall be seven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter,
of usual pattern, displaying the colors of the Society blue, white and buff,
and may be worn by all members at discretion in the upper left-hand button-
hole of the coat.
ARTICLE XVI. — Indebtedness.
No debts shall be contracted on behalf of the National Society. Every
obligation for the payment of money, except checks drawn against deposits,
executed in the name or on behalf of the National Society shall be null and
void.
ARTICLE XVII. — Amendments.
These By-Laws may be altered or amended by a vote of three-fourths of
the members present at any meeting of the General Board of Managers,
notice thereof having been given at a previous meeting.
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NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON THE
McKINLEY MEMORIAL.
CHAIRMAN, Hon. James M. Richardson, Cleveland, Ohio.
Arizona Col. P. P. Parker Phoenix.
Arkansas Dr. Charles E. Nash Little Rock.
California Hon. George W. Spencer San Francisco.
Colorado Gen. Irving Hale Denver.
Connecticut Hon. Jonathan Trumbull Norwich.
Delaware Rev. Francis M. Munson, D. D New Castle.
Dist. of Columbia. Gen. Joseph C. Wheeler Washington.
Florida W. 0. H. Shepard Pensacola.
France Gen. Horace Porter Paris.
Hawaii Hon. William R. Castle Honolulu.
Illinois Col. George M. Moulton Chicago.
Indiana Hon. William E. English Indianapolis.
Iowa Hon. Wm. H. Bailey Des Moines.
Kansas John Taylor Burris Ola the.
Kentucky Dr. Thomas Page Grant Louisville.
Louisiana Henry Warmoth Robinson New Orleans.
Maine Leslie C. Cornish Augusta.
Maryland Maurice E. Skinner Baltimore.
Massachusetts . . . .Nathan Warren Boston.
Michigan Hon. Alfred Russell Detroit.
Minnesota Hon. William H. Grant Minneapolis.
Missouri Gen. George H. Shields . . , St. Louis.
Montana James A. Shoemaker Helena.
Nebraska John H. Daniels Omaha.
New Hampshire . . . William P. Fiske Concord.
New Jersey Hon. John Whitehead Morristown.
New York William W. J. Warren New York City.
Oregon Gen. Thomas M. Anderson U. S. A.
Pennsylvania .... Col. Albert J. Logan Pittsburg.
Rhode Island Hon. Charles Warren Lippett Providence.
Philippine Islands . Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge U. S. A.
South Dakota Rev. E. E. Clough, D. D Deadwood.
Tennessee Col. J. B. Killebrew Nashville.
Texas Clay S. Briggs Galveston.
Utah Hon. John Q. Cannon Salt Lake City.
Vermont . Hon. Fletcher D. Proctor Proctor.
Virginia Benjamin B. Minor, LL. D Richmond.
Washington Hon. John L. Wilson Spokane.
Wisconsin Jonathan Franklin Pierce Milwaukee.
STATE SOCIETIES
OF THE
SONS OF
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ARIZONA SOCIETY.
29 Members.
Organized June 13, 1896. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Col. P. P. Parker r Phoenix
Vice-President, Dr. John Wix Thomas Phoenix
Secretary, Major Lewis W. Coggins Phoenix
Treasurer, Lloyd B. Christy Phoenix
Historian, R. E. Miner Phoenix
Chaplain, L. A. McAfee, D. D t Phoenix
36 NATIONAL SOCIETY
ARKANSAS SOCIETY.
37 Members.
Organized April 29, 1899. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected January 8, 1902.)
President, Dr. Charles E. Nash Little Rock
Vice-President, Leonidas Colwell Balch Little Rock
Secretary and Registrar, Fay Hempstead Little Rock
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 37
CALIFORNIA SOCIETY.
366 Members.
Organized October 22, 1875. Annual meeting second Tuesday
in January.
List of Officers.
(Elected January 14, 1902.)
President, William J. Dutton San Francisco
Senior Vice-President, Giles H. Gray San Francisco
Junior Vice-President, Col. A. D. Cutler San Francisco
Secretary, Edwin Bonnell, 101 Montgomery Si... .San Francisco
Treasurer, Chas. H. Warner San Francisco
Registrar, Col. A. S. Hubbard San Francisco
Marshal, Bryon Mauzy San Francisco
38 NATIONAL SOCIETY
COLORADO SOCIETY.
117 Members.
Organized July 4, 1896. Annual meeting April 19, to com-
memorate the Battle of Lexington.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 19, 1902.)
Acting President, Frank M. Keezer Denver
Vice-President, Judge N. W. Dixon Pueblo
Vice-President, Edwin Scott Denver
Vice-President, Dr. Clarkson N. Guyer Denver
Vice-President, Brig. Gen. Irving Hale Denver
Secretary, Harold C. Stephens, 204 Symes Block Denver
Treasurer, S. B. Hardy Denver
Registrar, Leonard Dates Denver
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 39
CONNECTICUT SOCIETY.
1019 Members.
Organized April 2, 1889. Annual meeting May 10, to com-
memorate the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by a Connecticut expe-
dition.
List of Officers.
(Elected May 10, 1902.)
President, Jonathan Trumbull Norwich
Vice-President, Edwin S. Greeley New Haven
Secretary, Charles G. Stone Hartford
Treasurer, William E. Chandler New Haven
Registrar, Hobart L. Hotchkiss New Haven
Historian, Joseph G. Woodward ".Hartford
Chaplain, Rev. Edwin S. Lines New Haven
Necrologist, Henry R. Jones '..' New Hartford
4& NATIONAL SOCIETY
DELAWARE SOCIETY.
78 Members.
Organized January 29, 1889. Annual meeting December 7,
to commemorate the ratification of the Constitution of the United
States by Delaware.
List of Officers.
(Elected December 7, 1901.)
President, Spotswood Garland Wilmington
Vice-President, Thomas F. Bayard Wilmington
Vice-President, James G. Longfellow Clayton
Vice-President, Charles L. Moore Georgetown
Secretary, D. Brainerd Ferris, Jr., 903 Van Buren St., Wilmington
Treasurer, Martin Beadenkopf Wilmington
Registrar, Lawrence B. Jones Wilmington
Chaplain, F. M. Munson, LL. D New Castle
Board of Managers.
Capt. H. B. None Wilmington
Col. William A. LaMotte Wilmington
Col. John Wainwright Wilmington
Frank R. Carswell Wilmington
Dedwin DeHaven Wilmington
SONS OF THE, AMERICAN REVOLUTION 41
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY.
520 Members.
Organized April 28, 1890. Annual meeting February 22t
to commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
. (Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Hon. Noble D. Larner Washington
Vice-President, Dr. John W. Bayne Washington
Vice-President, S. W. Woodward Washington
Vice-President, John Paul Earnest Washington
Recording Secretary, Wallace Donald McLean Washington
Corresponding Secretary, William H. Pearce Washington
Treasurer, H. P. R. Holt Washington
Registrar, Mr. Sidney I. Besselievre Washington
Librarian, Zebina Moses Washington
Historian, Prof. John W. Chickering Washington
Chaplain, Rev. Thomas S. Childs, D. D Washington
42 NATIONAL SOCIETY
FLORIDA SOCIETY.
34 Members.
Organized March 14, 1896. Annual meeting on the 22nd of
February to commemorate the birthday of Washington.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Judge John C. Avery Pensacola
Vice-President, Judge A. C. Blount, Jr Pensacola
Secretary, Wm. O. H. Shepard Pensacola
Registrar-Treasurer, Arthur A. Brown Pensacola
Chaplain, Rev. Percival H. Whaley Pensacola
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 43
SOCIETY IN FRANCE.
23 Members.
Organized in Paris, France, September 16, 1897. Annual meet-
ing, Lexington Day, April 19.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 19, 1901.)
President, Gen. Horace Porter Paris
Vice-President, Gaston de Sahune de la Lafayette Paris
Secretary, Edward P. McLean Paris
Treasurer, J. D. Stickney Paris
Registrar, Col. Charles Chaille-Long Paris
44 NATIONAL SOCIETY
HAWAIIAN SOCIETY.
62 Members.
Organized June 17, 1896. Annual meeting June 17, to com-
memorate the Battle of Bunker Hill.
List of Officers.
(Elected June 17, 1902.)
President, Hon. Frank Stanwood Dodge Honolulu
Vice-President, Hon. Frederick J. Lowrey Honolulu
Secretary, Hon. William O. Atwater Honolulu
Treasurer, Hon. W. J. Forbes Honolulu
Registrar, Prof. William D. Alexander Honolulu
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 45
ILLINOIS SOCIETY.
522 Members.
Organized January 14, 1890. Annual meeting December 3, to
commemorate the admission of Illinois into the Union.
Headquarters of the Society, 623 New York Life Building, Chi-
cago.
List of Officers.
(Elected December 3, 1901.)
President, Albert E. Snow Chicago
First Vice-President, Daniel M. Lord .Chicago
Second Vice-President, John H. Loomis Chicago
Secretary, John D. Vandercook, Austin Station Chicago
Treasurer, Francis J. Cushing Chicago
Historian and Poet, Albert Judson Fisher Chicago
Registrar, John S. Sargeant Chicago
Chaplain, William M. Lawrence, D. D Chicago
Sergeant-at-Arms, O. H. Bardwell Chicago
46 NATIONAL SOCIETY
INDIANA SOCIETY.
203 Members.
Organized January 15, 1890. Annual meeting February 25,
to commemorate the capture of Fort Sackville, Vincennes, Ind.
List of Officers.
(Elected March 7, 1902.)
President, William E. English Indianapolis
Honorary Vice-President, Wellington A. Clark Indianapclis
Secretary, Charles W. Moores, 602 Lemcke Building. Indianapolis
Treasurer, Cincinnatus H. McDowell Indianapolis
Registrar, Duncan T. Bacon Indianapolis
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 47
IOWA SOCIETY.
175 Members.
Organized September 5, 1893. Annual meeting April 19 to
commemorate Lexington and Concord.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 17, 1902.)
President, Herman Knapp Ames
First Vice-President, Col. Warren Scott Dugan Chariton
Second Vice-President, John Randall Sage Des Moires
Treasurer, Willard Secor Forest City
Secretary, Elbridge Drew Hadley Des Moines
Registrar-Historian, Dr. Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Chaplain, Rev. Edmund March Vittum Grinnell
48 NATIONAL SOCIETY
KANSAS SOCIETY.
153 Members.
Organized March 31, 1892. Annual meeting the third Wednes-
day in January.
List of Officers.
(Elected January 16, 1901.)
President, G. F. Kimball Topeka
Vice-President, J. T. Lovewell Topeka
Vice-President, John Taylor Burris Olathe
Vice-President, Richard O. Elting Kanasada
Vice-President, F. M. Nelson Wichita
Secretary and Historian, Wm. E. Connelley Topeka
Treasurer, Jonathan D. Norton Topeka
Registrar, J. L. Eldredge Topeka
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 49
KENTUCKY SOCIETY.
73 Members.
Organized April 8, 1889. Annual meeting October 19, to com-
memorate the surrender of Cornwallis.
List of Officers.
(Elected October 19, 1900.)
President, George Twyman Wood Louisville
Vice-President, Robert R. Burnam Richmond
Secretary, Phil. T. Allin Louisville
Treasurer, Cary H. Bacon Louisville
Registrar, Dr. Thomas Page Grant Louisville
Historian, W. H. Averill Frankfort
Chaplain, Rev. Charles E. Craik Louisville
50 NATIONAL SOCIETY
LOUISIANA SOCIETY.
44 Members. »
Organized May 19, 1893. Annual meeting, December 1 2.
List of Officers.
(Elected December 14, 1901.)
President, E. S. Stoddard New Orleans
Vice-President, Henry W. Robinson New Orleans
Vice-President, W. L. Sirjacques New Orleans
State Secretary, Thomas Dabney Dimitry New Orleans
Financial Secretary, W. McL. Fayssonx New Orleans
Treasurer, Col. Charles A. Larendon New Orleans
Registrar, Dr. J. Moore Soniat New Orleans
Historian, Charles Patton Dimitry New Orleans
Chaplain, John Talbot Sawyer, D. D New Orleans
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 5 1
MAINE SOCIETY.
372 Members.
Organized March 14, 1891. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Leslie C. Cornish Augusta
Vice-President, Hon. Charles F. Libby Portland
Vice-President, Hon. Albert R. Savage Auburn
Vice-President, Chandler C. Harvey Fort Fairfield
Vice-President, Eben Corey Portland
Vice-President, Everett B. Norton Farmington
Vice-President, Charles C. Burrill Ellsworth
Vice-President, Major Charles J. House Augusta
Vice-President, Hon. Albert W. Butler .Rockland
Vice-President, Capt. James W. Tukey Newcastle
Vice-President, John F. Sprague Monson
Vice-President, Walter H. Sturtevant Richmond
Vice-President, Col. W. R. G. Estes Skowhegan
Vice-President, Hon. Joseph Williamson Belfast
Vice-President, Nelson S. Allan Dennysville
Vice-President, Dr. William J. Maybury Saco
Secretary, Major Henry S. Burrage, 185 Middle St Portland
Treasurer, Philip F. Turner Portland
Registrar, Hon. Josiah H. Drummond Portland
Librarian, Hubbard W. Bryant Portland
Historian, Nathan Goold .Portland
Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Francis B. Denio Bangor
52 NATIONAL SOCIETY
MARYLAND SOCIETY.
230 Members.
Organized April 20, 1889. Annual meeting October 19, to com-
memorate the burning of the brig "Peggy Stewart" in Annapolis,
October 19, 1774.
List of Officers.
(Elected October 19, 1902.)
President, Hon. Edwin Warfield Baltimore
Vice-President, James D. Iglehart, M. D Baltimore
Vice-President, William H. Gill Baltimore
Vice-President, Samuel C. Rowland Baltimore
Secretary, J. Noble Stockett, 1604 John St Baltimore
Treasurer, R. Ross Holloway Baltimore
Registrar, Alfred D. Bernard Baltimore
Historian, Albert K. Hadel, M. D Baltimore
Chaplain, Henry Branch, D. D Elliott City
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 53
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY.
1504 Members.
Organized April 19, 1889. Annual meeting April 19, to com-
memorate the battles of Lexington and Concord.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 19, 1902.)
President, Francis Henry Brown, M. D Boston
Vice-President, Charles Elisha Adams Lowell
Vice-President, George Eugene Belknap Brookline
Vice-President, Moses Greeley Parker, M. D Lowell
Secretary, William Lithgow Willey, 28 State St Boston
Registrar, Herbert Wood Kimball, 28 State St Boston
Treasurer, Charles M. Green, M. D Boston
Historian, Francis Henry Lincoln Hingham
Chaplain, Rev. Carlton A. Staples Lexington
54 NATIONAL SOCIETY
MICHIGAN SOCIETY.
386 Members.
Organized January 18, 1890. Biennial meeting April 15.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 15, 1901.)
President, Alfred Russell Detroit
Vice-President, Thomas Pitts Detroit
Secretary, Henry S. Sibley, 80 Griswold St Detroit
Treasurer, Edwin W. Gibson Detroit
Registrar, George W. Bates Detroit
Chaplain, Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, D. D . . .Detroit
Historian, James Cosslett Smith, Jr Detroit
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 55
MINNESOTA SOCIETY.
416 Members.
Organized December 26, 1889. Annual meeting December 26,
to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Trenton.
List of Officers.
(Elected December 26, 1900.)
President, Hon. Edward C. Stringer St. Paul
Vice-President, James C. Haynes Minneapolis
Vice-President, Wilford L. Wilson St. Paul
Secretary, Edwin S. Chittenden, Pioneer Press Building. .St. Paul
Assistant Secretary, Arthur M. Wickwire St. Paul
Treasurer, Edward R. Sanf ord, Jr St. Paul
Registrar, Fremont N. Jaynes St. Paul
Historian, Hon. William H. Grant Minneapolis
Chaplain, Rev. Maurice D. Edwards, D. D St. Paul
56 NATIONAL SOCIETY
MISSOURI SOCIETY.
131 Members.
Organized April 23, 1889. Annual meeting March 4, to com-
memorate taking effect of the Constitution of the United States.
Annual dinner April 19, to commemorate battles of Concord and
Lexington.
List of Officers.
(Elected March 4, 1902.)
President, Clark H. Sampson St. Louis
Vice-President, James E. Withrow St. Louis
Vice-President, I. M. Mason St. Louis
Vice-President, W. B. Homer St. Louis
Vice-President, L. C. Slavens St. Louis
Honorary Vice-President, Samuel Treat St. Louis
Honorary Vice-President, Caius Paddock St. Louis
Honorary Vice-President, Nathan Cole St. Louis
Honorary Vice-President, T. B. Edgar St. Louis
Honorary Vice-President, Stephen P. Twiss St. Louis
Secretary, Ashley Cabell, 506 Olive St St. Louis
Treasurer, I. Sherere Carter St. Louis
Registrar, J. M. Fulton St. Louis
Historian, Horace Kephart St. Louis
Chaplain, Rev. S. J. Niccolls, D. D St. Louis
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MONTANA SOCIETY.
27 Members.
Organized June 5, 1894. Annual meeting February 22, to com-
memorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Henry N. Blake Helena
Vice-President, E. G. Brooke Helena
Treasurer, John B. Southwayd Helena
Secretary, Frank H. Crowell Helena
Registrar, O. A. Southwayd Helena
Chaplain, James U. Sanders Helena
58 NATIONAL SOCIETY
NEBRASKA SOCIETY.
81 Members.
Organized April 25, 1890. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, L. P. Funkhouser Lincoln
Senior Vice-President, Charles S. Lobingier Omaha
Junior Vice-President, Richard M. Allen Ames
Secretary, R. Frank Alexander Omaha
Treasurer, Paul W. Kuhns Omaha
Registrar, Thomas G. Doyle Omaha
Historian, Carroll G. Pearse Omaha
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 59
NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY.
312 Members.
Organized April 24, 1889. Annual meeting April 19, to com-
memorate the Battle of Lexington.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 19, 1902.)
President, Hon. Henry M. Baker Bow Mills
Vice-President, Rev. Daniel C. Roberts, D. D Concord
Vice-President, A. C. Bradley Newport
Vice-President, Hon. Cyrus K. Little Manchester
Secretary and Treasurer, Howard F. Hill, 69 S. Main St. .Concord
Registrar, William P. Fiske Concord
Historian, John Scales Dover
Chaplain, Rev. D. C. Roberts, D. D Concord
60 NATIONAL SOCIETY
NEW JERSEY SOCIETY.
429 Members.
Organized March 7, 1889. Annual meeting, usually January 3
(Battle of Princeton), or at such other time as the Society at any
annual meeting may designate.
List of Officers.
(Elected January 3, 1902.)
President, Hon. John Whitehead . , Morristown
First Vice-President, Hon. J. Franklin Fort East Orange
Second Vice-President, Andrew W. Bray Newark
Secretary, Frederic M. Payne Newark
Treasurer, Oscar H. Condit East Orange
Registrar, John Jackson Hubbell Newark
Historian, Gen. James F. Rusling. Trenton
Chaplain, Rev. Charles H. Mann Orange
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 6 1
NEW YORK.
THE EMPIRE STATE SOCIETY.
1393 Members.
Organized February 11, 1890. Annual meeting February 2.6.
List of Officers.
(Elected March 18, 1902.)
President, Walter Seth Logan New York
Vice-President, Edward Payson Cone New York
Vice-President, William A. Marble New York
Vice-President, Charles W. Wood Syracuse
Secretary, Louis H. Cornish, 239 Broadway New York
Treasurer, Richard T. Davies New York
Registrar, Teunis D. Huntting Brooklyn
Historian, Gen. Horatio C. King Brooklyn
Chaplain, Rev. Henry Elliot Mott, D. D Elizabeth, N. J.
62 NATIONAL SOCIETY
OHIO SOCIETY.
435 Members.
Organized April 22, 1890. Annual meeting April 19, to com-
memorate the Battle of Lexington.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 19, 1902.)
President, Millard F. Anderson Akron
Vice-President, Col. James Kilbourne Columbus
Vice-President, Col. Moulton Houk Toledo
Vice-President, Judge Rush R. Sloane Sandusky
Vice-President, Col. W. A. Taylor Columbus
Vice-President, Dr. William A. Galloway Xenia
Secretary, Major Robert Mason Davidson Newark
Registrar, Col. W. L. Curry Columbus
Treasurer, S. G. Harvey Toledo
Historian, Dr. L. C. Herrick Columbus
Chaplain, Rev. Julius W. Atwood Columbus
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 63
OREGON SOCIETY.
123 Members.
Organized June 6, 1891. Annual meeting February 22, to com-
memorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Hon. George H. Williams Portland
Vice-President, Wallace McCamant Portland
Secretary, Robert T. Piatt, Commercial Block Portland
Treasurer, Robert F. Bell Portland
Registrar, Willard H. Chapin Portland
64 NATIONAL SOCIETY
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY.
378 Members.
Organized November 23, 1893. Annual meeting February 22,
to commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, William L. Jones Pittsburgh
Vice-President, James Denton Hancock Franklin
Vice-President, Albert J. Logan Pittsburgh
Vice-President, Henry A. Laughlin Pittsburgh
Vice-President, J. S. DuShane New Castle
Vice-President, Col. Chambers McKibben Pittsburgh
Vice-President, Samuel E. Gill Pittsburgh
Secretary, Thomas Stephen Brown, 508 Diamond St. . . Pittsburgh
Treasurer, H. W. defter Pittsburgh
Registrar, Henry D. Sellers Pittsburgh
Chaplain, Rev. Richard S. Holmes, D. D Pittsburgh
Historian, Rev. W. A. Stanton, D. D Pittsburgh
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 65
RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY.
260 Members.
Organized February 1, 1890. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Henry Van Amburgh Joslin Providence
Vice-President, Hon. Elisha Dyer Providence
Secretary, Christopher Rhodes, 290 Benefit St Providence
Treasurer, Arthur Preston Sumner Providence
Registrar, Harris Wilbur Brown Providence
Historian, George Franklin Weston Providence
Chaplain, Rev. Frederick James Bassett, D. D Providence
Poet, John Prescott Farnsworth Providence
66 NATIONAL SOCIETY
SOUTH DAKOTA SOCIETY.
24 Members.
Organized April 24, 1899. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1901.)
President, Frederick A. Haines Deadwood
Vice-President, Hon. E. W. Martin Deadwood
Secretary and Registrar, William W. Torrence Deadwood
Treasurer, Albert D. Wilson Deadwood
Chaplain, Rev. E. E. Clough, D. D Deadwood
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 67
TENNESSEE SOCIETY.
in Members.
Organized April 21, 1899. Annual meeting March 15, to com-
memorate the Battle of Guilford Court House.
List of Officers.
(Elected March 15, 1902.)
President, Col. A. S. Colyar Nashville
Vice-President, Hon. J. A. Cartwright Nashville
Vice-President, John P. Williams Nashville
Secretary and Treasurer, L. R. Eastman Nashville
Registrar, Goodloe Lindsley Nashville
Historian, John H. DeWitt Nashville
Chaplain, Dr. David C. Kelley Nashville
6$ NATIONAL SOCIETY
TEXAS SOCIETY.
48 Members.
Organized December 8, 1896. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, Hon. Ira Hobart Evans Austin
First Vice-President, William F. Beers „ Galveston
Second Vice-President, W. H. Young Palestine
Secretary, Clay S. Briggs Galveston
Treasurer, Edward R. Girardeau Galveston
Registrar-Historian, J. T. Huffmaster Galveston
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 69
UTAH SOCIETY.
61 Members.
Organized January 27, 1897. Annual meeting February 22, to
commemorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected April 19, 1902.)
President. Frank K. Stephens Salt Lake City
Vice-President, Frank D. Hobbs Salt Lake City
Secretary, Mortimer S. Allen Salt Lake City
Treasurer, A. H. Adkinson Salt Lake City
Registrar, Gen. Charles S. Burton .Salt Lake City
Historian, David Ramsey Gray Salt Lake City
Chapiain. George Albert Smith Salt Lake City
70 NATIONAL SOCIETY
VERMONT SOCIETY.
282 Members.
Organized April 2, 1889. Annual meeting second Wednesday
in November.
List of Officers.
(Elected August 30, 1902.)
President, Fletcher D. Proctor Proctor
Vice-President, Henry D. Holton Brattleboro
Secretary, Charles S. Forbes St. Albans
Treasurer, Clarence L. Smith Burlington
Registrar, Henry L. Stillson Bennington
Historian, George G. Benedict Burlington
Chaplain, Rev. M. L. Severence Burlington
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION fl
VIRGINIA SOCIETY.
64 Members.
Organized July 7, 1890. Annual meeting February 22, to com-
memorate Washington's Birthday.
List of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 190 1.)
President, Judge Lunsford L. Lewis Richmond
Vice-President, Prof. John P. McGuire, Sr Richmond
Vice-Presidents, Samuel H. Pulliam. Richmond
Vice-President, Arthur B. Clarke , Richmond
Secretary, B. B. Minor, LL. D., 413 W. Grace St. . .'". .Richmond
Registrar and Historian, Dr. Robert A. Brock Richmond
Treasurer, Ernest W. Moore Richmond
Chaplain, Rev. Austin E. Owen, D. D .Berkley
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WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
140 Members.
Organized June 17, 1895. Annual meeting February 22, to com
memorate Washington's Birthday.
Ltst of Officers.
(Elected February 22, 1902.)
President, George Hunt Walker Seattle
First Vice-President, Crockett Morgan Riddell Tacoma
Second Vice-President, A. George Avery Spokane
Secretary, Charles S. Gleason Seattle
Treasurer, Augustus V. Bell Seattle
Registrar, Walter B. Beals Seattle
Historian, Edgar Ray Butterworth Seattle
Chaplain, Rev. E. M. Randall, Jr Seattle
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 73
WISCONSIN SOCIETY.
236 Members.
Organized January 14, 1890. Annual meeting May 29, to com-
memorate the admission of Wisconsin into the Union.
List of Officers.
(Elected May 29, 1902.)
President, Dr. William M. Farr Kenosha
Vice-President, William Stark Smith Milwaukee
Vice-President, J. Franklin Pierce Milwaukee
Secretary, Frederic Bartlett Bradford Milwaukee
Treasurer, William Chester Swain Milwaukee
Registrar, William Ward Wight Milwaukee
Historian, Rollin Bates Mallory Milwaukee
Chaplain, Rev. George W. Dunbar Janesville
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
National Congress Sons of the
American Revolution
HELD AT WASHINGTON, D, C,
April 30 and May 1 and 2,
1902
OFFICIAL MINUTES OF THE CONGRESS
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 77
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
National Congress Sons of the American Revolution
HELD AT WASHINGTON, D. C
April 30 and May 1 and 2, 1902
OFFICIAL MINUTES OF THE CONGRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION.
PRESIDENT-GENERAL LOGAN : The National Congress
of the Sons of the American Revolution is now in session.
Chaplain-General Waefield (opening prayer) : Almighty God, the
Creator and preserver of all things, we come into Thy presence this day with
thanksgiving in our hearts, and as we look round about, upon this beautiful
scene that is presented to us, we rejoice that Thou hast made us to be the
Lords of this thy creation in which we dwell.
God of the nation, we rejoice that Thou hast given us so great a place in
the sisterhood of the nations of the earth. We rejoice in the influence that
this our country exercises on earth, and among men ; and we rejoice to be-
lieve that it is permeated by that truth of Thine which Thou hast revealed
unto men. God of our fathers, we rejoice this day in the memory of the
men who so gloriously served Thee in those great days when they, in their
courage, in their fortitude, in their faith, achieved the liberty of this Re-
public. God, Father of man, source of light and of all truth, we ask Thee
that Thou would'st send forth Thy spirit this day to enlighten us and make
us to realize that if we are to transmit to posterity the glorious truth that
our fathers learned of Thee, then we must be ready to sacrifice all things in
Thy service for the glory of our own nation and for the glory of our God.
We pray Thee to bless this society ; to bless all the meetings to be held at
this time ; to fill us with a deep realization of the responsibility that rests
upon us as the representatives of a great cause. May we look down the
centuries, as well as back over the past, and may we seek by all that in us
lies to hand down to the generation following those principles which we love
and which we seek to perpetuate. May Thy blessing now be upon us and
upon all our meetings together. We ask this in the name of Thy Son, Our
Saviour. Amen.
PRESIDENT-GENERAL LOGAN: We meet here as the
guests of the District of Columbia Society ; and it gives me great
pleasure to introduce to you the Honorable Noble D. Larner,
President of the District of Columbia Society.
Honorable Noble D. Larner : Mr. President-General and Compa-
triots of the National Congress of the Sons of the American Revolu-
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tion: It is with very great pleasure that I have the honor on this oc-
casion to extend to you on behalf of our society a hearty welcome to this,
the most beautiful city, and the capital city, of our country. I welcome you
here to-day, not because you are the representatives of any particular State
or Territory, but as representatives of our glorious Union as a whole — a
Union that owes its existence to the self-sacrifices and irresistible actions of
the noble old patriots from whom we claim the privilege of calling ourselves
"Sons of the American Revolution."
Some nine or ten years ago we had the pleasure of entertaining our Na-
tional Congress in this city. Then our local society was small in numbers
as well as in influence. Since that period the spirit of patriotism has been
largely on the increase in our city, and to-day we are proud to say that
instead of being classed as among the smallest of the societies we have so
far advanced as to be recognized as one of the largest branches of the great
Tree of Liberty. The fire is freshly burning in our midst, and we are bold
enough to express the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be
able to say to our compatriots from New England, where the efforts of our
Patriotic Fathers first began, that we no longer march in the rear of any other
society. Therefore it behooves all of you to keep your eyes open and watch
well your colors.
When we extended to you an invitation to hold the meeting of the Con-
gress of 1902 in this most beautiful city of the greatest, most glorious and
most prosperous country of the world, we promised to do the best we could
to make your stay among us such that the day would never come when you
should regret that you had accepted our invitation. We have no battlefields
or other historic places of the Revolution to show you, but we have many
things far more beautiful and important to an American than any battle-
field can be, whose beauty is the result of the great and self-sacrificing
efforts of our patriotic ancestors upon historic battlefields. We are proud
of our National Congress, and our great aim is to so conduct the affairs of
our society as to insure the friendship and good wishes of all our compa-
triots, no matter with what society they may be connected.
We may be pardoned for saying a little in relation to the city of Wash-
ington, and that is that it is not only the most beautiful city of our country,
but the most unique and extraordinary as to its mode of government. For
many years our city and the District of Columbia was governed like all
other cities in our Union ; that is, by the people, exercising the right of
franchise. This, however, has been changed. Years ago the Government of
the United States, through the Congress, assumed the duty of legislating for
our people, thereby relieving them of all responsibility as to city and District
affairs, which are now directly managed by a board of three commissioners,
appointed by the President of the United States. Under these circumstances
we have considered it proper upon this occasion to present to you, as the
most apropriate one to extend to the members of our National Congress a
welcome to our city, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the
District of Columbia. I feel particularly gratified in being able thus to
present to you one whom I have had the pleasure of knowing for many years,
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the Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, the President of the Board of Commission-
ers of the District of Columbia, who will now address you :
Honorable H. B. F. Macfarland: Mr. President and Members of
the National Congress: I am very proud to stand before you to-day to
offer the greeting and the congratulations of the National Capital. I con-
gratulate you upon this remarkably large attendance — the largest, I am told,
that you have ever had. And also upon the weather, which the Committee
of Arrangement has thoughtfully provided for the occasion. (Laughter.)
This, gentlemen, is our inauguration weather ; not the kind we have been
furnishing on the 4th of March — that blustering and stormy and dangerous
day — but the kind we expect to furnish on the last Thursday of April, when
we shall have succeeded in amending the Constitution of the United States
so as to change the day. (Applause.) As you are all aware, the Senate
has already passed unanimously Senator Hoar's resolution, proposing an
amendment of the Constitution to that effect, and it is now being consid-
ered by the House Committee on the Judiciary, and the National Committee,
composed of the Governors of forty-five of the States and Territories, all
cordially approving the proposed change, and of fifteen residents of the Dis-
trict of Columbia. It is very hopeful that the House will concur with the
Senate in submitting to the people through their Legislatures at this session
this proposed amendment of the Constitution. (Applause.)
We invoke your assistance in this undertaking ; we know that men of
such influence and standing in your respective States will be able to stir up
the pure minds of your people by way of remembrance of the necessity for
this change. Then, when you return here to the inauguration of Com-
patriot Roosevelt in 1905 (applause), you will not come at the peril of your
lives, but to enjoy such weather as we see to-day ; to see the capital at its
height of beauty, with the trees and the parks and the hills in all the
splendor of the spring.
This is the 113th anniversary of the inauguration of the Father of the
American Revolution as the first President of the United States. It is most
fitting that the Sons of the American Revolution should assemble in
national congress on this day in the national capital, in the city planned
by George Washington, and which bears his name. For there would have
been no national capital if George Washington had not carried through to
success the American Revolution, and the adoption of the Constitution of
the United States. Because that mighty spirit and the other Revolutionary
patriots, men and women, small and great, established independence and
wrought a perfect union, we are here to-day, and the American flag is float-
ing in blessing the world around.
Here is the home of that flag, for the national capital has never owed
allegiance to any other. Here is the home of the National genius, distin-
guished by the capitol and the White House, the unparalleled monument to
Washington, looking down to his home and the tomb at Mount Vernon,
and all the beauty flowering from Washington's plan for the Federal City
at its best time of the year. Here is the home of the national government,
with all its glorious history and all its glorious promise, and the memories
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of its great men, its heroes, saints and martyrs, which make Washington
a greater than Westminster Abbey. Here is the official residence of
the President of the United States, now a Son of the American Revolution,
exhibiting the noble qualities and the patriotic principles of our revolution-
ary ancestors. Here is the official residence of Congress, the greatest legis-
lative body on earth, now as always characterized by high intelligence and
integrity. Here is the official residence of the Chief Justice of the United
States, and his associates of the Supreme Court of the United States, the
most august and powerful tribunal the world has ever known. The latest
immigrant coming to Washington fresh from the steerage must feel on such
a day as this the thrill of the significance of his surroundings. How much
more must they stir the hearts of men with your proud heritage of Amer-
ican patriotism and American glory. You who have the blood of the men
and women who founded the Republic, and who poured out their lives that
it might live, must feel an interest in the National Capital, a desire for its
improvement and advancement, far greater than that which even the average
American feels. If a visit to it exalts the just pride of every American,
it must raise your spirits to the point of tears. It must move you to ex-
claim, as you think of all it represents :
"Oh, beautiful my country !
What were our lives without thee !
What all our lives to save thee!"
In the name of the government of the District of Columbia, I bid you
welcome to the National Capital, to your capital, the capital of all the
Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, and of all those who
have found on this continent that freedom of which their ancestors had
mainly dreamed, and that opportunity which only such freedom could give.
(Applause.)
President-General Logan : Mr. President and Mr. Commissioner : I
thank you on behalf of the Sons of the American Revolution scattered through-
out the land for the cordial welcome and kindly greeting that you have given
their representatives who are here assembled to-day.
We are proud to hold our National Congress here in the District of
Columbia, as the guests of the District of Columbia Society, which we re-
gard as one of the brightest jewels in our now many jewelled crown. We
are proud and happy to hold our National Congress here in this beautiful
city, the site for which was selected by the great Commander and the plans
for which were largely drawn and altogether approved by him. We are
proud and happy to meet here in this beautiful hotel, with its modern con-
veniences and its sacred memories of old. We are proud to meet here on
the banks of the Potomac, the river which Washington loved so well, and
in sight of whose flowing stream he lived and died.
Washington is not altogether a strange place to the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution. There is a milk-white mansion just beyond the Treasury
that for many years past has been occupied by a succession of members of
our Society. (Applause.) In 1909 or 1933, or at the end of whatever
succession of terms President Roosevelt will consent to accept, the Sons of
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the American Revolution will be ready to present another candidate as a
tenant for the White House. (Applause.) If the other States are too
bashful or modest, the Empire State will always be ready. (Applause.)
If you wish for a Republican, we offer you our distinguished compatriot
who is now the Secretary of War. (Applause.) If you will have a Demo-
crat, I propose to you the Congressman from Westchester and the Bronx,
who is now the Treasurer-General of our Socity. (Applause.) If by that
time the parties are changed, we are sure we will have some compatriot
that will fill any bill you may need. (Laughter.)
The army is full of our members. The Commanding-General and the
Inspector-General — both distinguished and honored members of our Society
— have added lustre to American arms as well as performed distinguished
services to this Society. (Applause.) All through the ranks you will
find the members of our Society doing duty for their country in the Philip-
pines or in Porto Rico, in the Orient or the Occident, wherever they may
be sent. The navy is equally full of Sons. The great Admiral, the man
who one Sunday morning studded old Manila Bay so thick with Spanish
hulks that they had to clear it for the benefit of commerce, is now a mem-
ber of our Society. And the navy is as full of them as the army.
Both Houses of Congress are running over with members of our Society,
and many of them are sitting here as delegates to-day. (Applause.) We are
proud to welcome them. In all the departments of the civil government of
the United States which is concentrated here in Washington, we find Sons
of the American Revolution. There are many of us at home who are keep-
ing our ear industriously to the telephone waiting for our country's call
(Laughter) ; and even though there be a salary attached to the office, we
still consent to serve. (Laughter.)
Mr. President and Mr. Commissioner, we are yours. You can do with
us what you will. The round of gayeties and festivities that you have pre-
pared for us we have prepared ourselves for. (Laughter.) Sons of the
American Revolution, whether they come from Maine or the Philippines, are
men of sturdy stomachs and strong physiques as well as of great intellectual
qualifications.
During the last year our chain of Societies has been moving around the
world. A few years ago one of my distinguished predecessors was sent to
France on a little business for the United States, and he sent us back in a few
months the French Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. (Ap-
plause. )
When we left Pittsburg last May, my immediate predecessor started for
the Philippines, to inspect the army there. He brings us back to-day the
Philippine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. (Applause.)
To-day, to go from our Society that is farthest East to the Society that is
farthest West, you don't go through the United States at all ; you go the
other way. We stretch two-thirds of the way around the globe. I don't
know whether we are not going to add China and complete the chain.
Mr. President and Mr. Commissioner, I repeat that we are ready for
you. If you have anything to eat, we bring you sturdy appetites ; if you
have beverages that must be consumed, we bring you a sun-dried thirst.
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(Laughter.) If you have fair patriots and moonlight walks, we are with
you. (Laughter.) If you have anything in the way of labor or of luxury,
we are here to receive it.
Mr. President and Mr. Commissioner, I thank you for your cordial wel-
come and hearty greeting. (Applause.)
PRESIDENT-GENERAL LOGAN: The next business in
order is the appointment of a Committee on Credentials.
MR BATES (Mich.) : I move that a Committee of five be
appointed on credentials.
Motion seconded and carried.
PRESIDENT-GENERAL LOGAN: I will appoint as the
Committee on Credentials :
Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross, of Illinois ;
Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins, of New York ;
Mr. Leon L. L. French, of District of Columbia.
Mr. George W. Bates, of Michigan ;
Judge Morris K. Beardsley, of Connecticut.
PRESIDENT-GENERAL LOGAN : I have the honor of in-
troducing to you the President of the Society of the Philippines,
General Joseph Breckinridge. (Applause.)
General Breckinridge : If you want to know anything about that
Philippine Society, I can only tell you that it is like all the other State
Societies that you have already organized, except for the quality that exists
there among the people of our color. Over there we are all exiles, and we
do not stay there. Every person on the Committee, when I organized the
Society, has since reached the United States or is going to reach the United
States before the year is out ; so, how the thing will continue we cannot
very well tell. But there were twenty-six members, and there were about
the same number outside who put their names in. There is a great deal of
enthusiasm of the type that you know so well, and a great deal of need for
just such principles as we represent. For instance, I was invited to a large
entertainment out there, and I have not time to tell you just what a fine
lot of fellows I met, both white and brown. But the American flag was
the table upon which our overcoats were laid ; the American flag was in the
place where you went to wash your face ; and the American flag was in that
condition that makes the flesh of the Sons of this Society creep.
There is an absolute lack of any knowledge whatever of a government of
institutions out there. This thing of being ruled by a constitution instead
of a grip behind the neck, and told to do this and that, is a thing that
the Filipinos do not understand ; and if we cannot teach it to them, if the
people with the interest as deep as the Sons of the American Revolution
have it in them cannot teach it, I don't know how they are going to learn it
Therefore, I say, as a missionary society, there never was since the founda-
tion of the world a greater need of those who are authorized to express our
sentiments to be on the field and express them — and that with fearlessness.
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A little story that flashes through my mind may be worth relating. I
have a colored cook who has been with me about thirty years ; I picked
her up in old Virginia. One day, to try how art affected the colored sister,
I took her down to Corcoran's Gallery to see the display. She said not a
word ; she walked before that collection, but never a word did she utter ;
an Indian chief could not be more self-restrained. But after I got her
home I said: "Now, Lucy, what did you think of the Corcoran Art Gal-
lery?" "Well," she said, "I don' know so much about the art; but they
young ladies looking through those horns at them other thing I thought
were very courageous." (Laughter.) Then she asked me: "General, will
you please tell me, did the gentleman that made that art just think they
looked like that, or did somebody sit for them?" Of course they had
models," said I. "Well, if you want to know what I thinks about it, I
am very glad there is none of my color among them." (Laughter.)
Now I don't know why some of the gentlemen down South do not start a
Sons of the American Revolution Society down among them, and see if you
cannot get them educated up to high art. I don't think that there is any-
thing in that far Orient that would interest anybody particularly that I
could relate here. You might be interested, however, to know that that
country over there is marvelously sightly. I was agreeably disappointed to
see how handsome it is. There is a productiveness about it, too, that I
fancy all Americans must be interested in knowing exists, if they do not
already know it. For instance, in the question of hemp in which I am
somewhat interested, coming from a region in Kentucky where my heredit-
ary farm I rented out for fifteen dollars, a farm for raising hemp. There,
in Manila, they raise about five times better hemp than we can in this
country, of a fibre that is exquisite in texture, and they make their gar-
ments of it so nice a sheen that you are apt to think it is silk. Of course
it is not hemp at all, but a fibre that replaces it, and as far as I could see,
should dominate the markets of the world in hemp.
The backbone of that island is a range of mountains, producing fine water
power ; and it looks as if you were going to have a wondrously built system
of electrical railroads before you get through. The native is an interesting
phenomenon to us. He is about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 120
pounds, and he has got all the kind of courage that a pirate has. I am not
telling you much of the Society out there, for they are all army and navy
men, and you don't care about them. (Cries of "Oh, yes we do!")
The thing most interesting which I saw out there was in China, at the
place where Riley was killed in one of the most gallant assaults on good
high walls, alongside that fine old hero Chaffee, who is representing America
out there on the fighting side ; a place where any American might feel proud.
Every nationality out there glorified in giving commendation to the persist-
ency of the assault of the Americans right up to the sacred and Forbidden
City. As gallant as Japan was, as absolutely self-abnegated and heroic as
she was, even she recognized the American soldier as the one on earth that
she claimed as brother, because he was always alongside at the front. (Ap-
plause.) An incident to show this occurred when the American Ninth was
ordered to support a Japanese detachment of about seventy men ; it being of
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course expected that the Japanese would be wiped out, and that the Ninth
would be mostly wiped out, but that their success would assure the capture
of Tien Tsin. When the petard placed against the gates — which was the
method the Japanese chose to enter the city — failed, they tried it again, and
again and failed. The Ninth stood in the road taking the fire ; but now
something had to be done after another failure of the petard to burst If the
150 men were to be wiped out the gate must be blown up. What would
happen to them after they got in was a matter of indifference ; but what
happened to the outside force meant ruin to the whole plan. But Liscum,
with that gallantry which he had already displayed beyond all measure of
care for his own life, saw that he had to detract the fire of the wall from
the Japanese or that they would not get there. The Japanese saw that they
had to be regardless of human life, or they would not get there. So Liscum
went close up to the walls and drew the fire, which he did to his own death ;
and a Japanese officer said to one of his men : "You go see that that petard
blows up." And he did ; and they went up together and he was never seen
again. That man is no Christian, but he is just a good soldier,- that little
brown man, as any American need wish to shake hands with.
I fancy that, with equal discipline, our new compatriot under the flag out
there in the Philippines can be made an equal soldier. I think that in
dexterity of hand, in quality of mind, he is as capable of fine development.
But, whether he is capable or not, the duty is on us, and Americans have to
walk this globe in a different attitude hereafter than they have ever done
before. For the first time in the history of America we have gone beyond
the imagination of Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and are carrying
Old Glory into a realm that they never knew, and higher than they ever
conceived. ( Applause. )
The Report of the Committee on Credentials was read at this point, and
jn motion, duly seconded, was approved.
PRESIDENT-GENERAL LOGAN: A little while ago I
tried to catch the Governor of New Jersey, but he escaped me.
He is now here in the hall, and everybody, I am sure, wants to see
him on the platform. (Applause. Mr. Franklin Murphy ascends
the platform.) I want to introduce to you the noblest Roman of
them all, Hon. Franklin Murphy. (Applause.)
HON. FRANKLIN MURPHY: Mr. President-General and
Compatriots, I feel sure that you won't expect me to say anything.
PRESIDENT-GENERAL LOGAN: A handsome man like
Governor Murphy speaks for himself.
LIST OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES PRESENT AT THE
NATIONAL CONGRESS, APRIL 30TH AND MAY 1ST
AND 2ND, 1903, WASHINGTON, D. C,
GENERAL OFFICERS.
Hon. Walter Seth Logan President-General
Hon. James Denton Hancock Vice-President-General
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Hon. Thomas Pitts Vice-President-General
Hon. Horace Davis Vice-President-General
Hon. John Whitehead Vice-President-General
Hon. George A. Pearre Vice-President-General
Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross Secretary-General
Hon. Cornelius Amory Pugsley Treasurer-General
A. Howard Clark Registrar-General
George Williams Bates Historian-General
Rev. Ethelbert D. Warfield, D. D Chaplain-General
Hon. Franklin Murphy Ex-President-General
Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge, U. S. A Ex-President-General
STATE SOCIETIES.
CALIFORNIA.
William M. Bunker, John W. Moore.
COLORADO.
Dr. William R. Whitehead.
CONNECTICUT.
Jonathan Trumbull, Col. Theodore A. Bingham, Isaac W. Birdseye,
Charles G. Stone, Morris B. Beardsley, Henry C. Sherwood, Dr. George C.
F. Williams, Leverett Belknap, Rufus E. Holmes, Col. Samuel Daskam, L.
Wheeler Beecher, Merritt Heminway, William E. Chandler, Louis B. Curtis,
J. Coolidge Hills, Henry Woodward, Isaac W. Brooks, Harry H. Hemin-
way, Henry P. Goddard, Franklin H. Hart, Senator O. H. Piatt, Congress-
man Nehemiah D. Sperry, Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill.
DELAWARE.
Hon. Spots wood Garland, D. Brainerd Ferris, Jr., Howard De Haven
Ross, L. Irving Handy, William De Wolf Dimock, Martin Beadenkopf, A.
J. Woodman, L. B. Jones, E. T. Lednum, John Bancroft.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Hon. Noble D. Larner, Dr. John W. Bayne, John Paul Earnest, Hon.
James T. Du Bois, Francis E. Grice, Thomas P. Randolph, William A.
DeCaindry, William B. Thompson, Dr. Edward M. Gallaudet, Rev. Thomas
S. Childs, D. D., Bernard R. Green, B. H. Warner, Leon L. L. French.
FLORIDA.
Judge A. C. Blount, Hon. Jefferson B. Browne, William O. H. Shepard,
Prank Gale Renshaw.
SOCIETY IN FRANCE.
Col. Charles Chaille-Long.
HAWAII.
Hon. William R. Castle, Hon. P. C. Jones.
ILLINOIS.
Albert E. Snow, Charles Kingsbury Miller, Albert Judson Fisher, R. D.
Bernard, George W. Hyde.
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INDIANA.
Theodore Stein.
Col. T. W. Harrison.
KANSAS.
KENTUCKY.
John C. Lewis, Admiral J. C. Watson, U. S. N., George T. Tyler, A. C.
Quisenberry.
MAINE.
Col. John M. Glidden, Philip F. Turner, Prentice C. Manning, Edwin S.
Drake, Frederic S. Vaill.
MARYLAND.
Hon. Edwin Warfield, Col. William Ridgley Griffith, Joseph Noble
Stockett, John R. Dorsey, S. C. Rowland, J. D. Iglehart, M. D.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Dr. Francis H. Brown, Gen. Francis H. Appleton, Herbert W. Kimball,
M. G. Parker, Albert A. Folson, George H. Marston, Nathan Warren, E.
Stearns, L. S. Gould, Webster Bruce, S. D. Gilbert, E. C. Battis, F. V.
Wright, David Pingree, L. S. Stowe, N. F. Hunt, C. B. Holman, W. D.
Parsons, C. T. Tatman, Cyrus H. Whitney, H. C. Whitcomb, C. C. Wil-
liams, E. Collins, H. K. Sanderson, Horace S. Cummings, W. R. Davis.
MICHIGAN.
Hon. Thomas Pitts, Dudley W. Smith, Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D., Rich-
ard H. Fyfe, George Williams Bates, James N. Wright, Henry S. Sibley,
George B. Remick, James C. Smith, Harry W. Quinby.
MINNESOTA.
Capt. Henry A. Castle, Charles O. Rice.
MONTANA.
Decius S. Wade, Harry B. Palmer, E. H. Talcott.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Henry M. Baker, William F. Whitcher.
NEW JERSEY.
Hon. John Whitehead, Hon. J. Franklin Fort, Hon. Franklin Murphy,
Prof. W. C. Armstrong, Franklin Murphy, Jr., Andrew W. Bray, Col.
James R. Mullikin, John J. Hubbell, Hon. Edgar Williams, Walter S,
Nichols, Col. Charles Burrowes, William H. Murphy.
NEW YORK.
Hon. Walter S. Logan, William W. J. Warren, Hon. Cornelius Amory
Pugsley, Charles Waldo Haskins, Richard C. Jackson, Charles H. Wight,
Albert J. Squier, George H. Denny, George M. Denny, William M. Crane.
Trueman G. Avery, Donald McLean, Fred E. Tasker, Edwin Van D. Gaz-
zam, Guy E. Wells, Louis H. Cornish.
OHIO.
Hon. J. M. Richardson, Col. Moulton Houk, Allen B. Clemens, F. C.
Bryan, W. E. Rambo, W. M. Curtis, George B. Wright, Judge Tod B.
Galloway.
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OREGON.
Gen. Thomas M, Anderson, U. S. A.
PENNSYLVANIA.
William L. Jones, Hon. James D. Hancock, Col. Albert J. Logan, Thomas
S. Brown, Henry D. Sellers, H. K. Gregory, Rev. W. A. Miller, D. D., Harry
Blynn, Col. J. P. Penny, R. W. Guthrie, Albion E. Best.
RHODE ISLAND.
Henry V. A. Joslin, Nathan W. Dennis, Nathaniel H. Brown, Capt. John
R. Bartlett, U. S. N. ; Col. George Andrews, U. S. A.; William T. C.
Wardwell, Christopher Rhodes.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Hon. E. W. Martin.
Clay S. Briggs.
L. H. Farnsworth.
TEXAS.
UTAH.
VERMONT.
Hon. Redfield Proctor, Hon. William P. Dillingham, Col. Charles S.
Forbes, Hon. Kittredge Haskins, Hon. C. H. Darling, Admiral George
Dewey, U. S. N.
VIRGINIA.
Judge Lunsford, L. Lewis, Judge James Keith, Hon. John Goode, Henry
H. Trice.
WASHINGTON.
J. Kennedy Stout, Frederick M. C. Choate, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Sidon
I. Besselievre, John D. Biddis, William H. Pearce.
WISCONSIN.
Oliver C. Fuller, Harold G. Underwood, Jonathan F. Pierce, H. S. Van
Ingen, Ellis B. Usher, Theodore L. Cole, William W. Strong.
REPORT OF SECRETARY-GENERAL, read by Mr. A. J.
Fisher.
Your Secretary-General has the honor to report to the National Society a
year of general progress and continued prosperity among nearly all State,
territorial and foreign branches of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Many of the chapters have moved along the even tenor of their way, doing
their appointed work quietly, participating in many forms of patriotic effort,
and have added a normal and healthy increase to their membership rolls.
Others have taken a new and more vigorous impetus, enlarging the scope of
their labors and making great and unusual gains in membership and in
awakening and strengthening local interest in affairs appertaining to our
organization. In a few instances States show gains in membership of fifty
or sixty per cent. A few others show slight net losses consequent upon the
dropping of all delinquents from their rolls. As a whole, the year past has
been a satisfactory one and by no means uneventful.
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The meeting of the General Board of Managers, which was called to meet
at Saratoga, N. Y., on September 19, 1901, was postponed on account of the
death of Compatriot President William McKinley, to meet at the office of
President-General Logan, in New York City, on October 14. A large delega-
tion of the National Society participated in the obsequies of the lamented
President held in Washington.
The chief business before the postponed meeting of the General Board of
Managers, held on October 14, was the selection of the place for the holding
of the present Congress, invitations from many State Societies from Con-
necticut to California and from Minnesota to Lousiana having been received.
A resolution was also adopted endorsing the report of the National Publica-
tion Committee with reference to the printing of a National Register of all
the members of our organization, and calling on the State Societies to urge
their membership to make individual subscriptions for the work and other-
wise assist in its distribution.
One of the principal matters of progress which can be recorded by our
organization for work accomplished in the year that has passed is a work
which has been carried on abroad as a result of the personal sacrifice and
effort of a few members in order to establish in France branches of the
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, for which purpose it was
necessary to know the names and services of the French officers and men of
the land army and navy who fought for American independence.
Upon the initiative of Mr. Paul Wentworth Linebarger, the National
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution therefore made, last year,
an inquiry at the War Department in Washington. The result was the
ascertaining that there did not exist any records of those French combatants,
with the exception of a small list of officers in Heitman's Historical Register.
The Ministry of War expressed the desire to obtain such records ; whereupon
the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution requested Mr.
H. Merou, Consul of France in Chicago, and honorary member of the
Illinois Society, Sons of the American Revolution, who was interested in
the movement from the beginning, to address his government on that subject.
During a vacation of six months, beginning with July 1, 1900, Mr. Merou
did what he had been requested to undertake. He obtained the establishment
of a Franco-American Committee of Research, appointed by His Excellency
M. Delcasse, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the proposition advanced
by United States Ambassador Gen. Horace Porter. He obtained also two
secretaries from the Ministry of War and two from the Ministry of the Navy
of France, for the work of compiling and copying the records in the French
archives.
Having been appointed Chairman of said Committee, with Mr. Edward P.
McLean, United States Vice-Consul in Paris, as its Vice-Chairman, and with
Col. Chaille-Long and Major Huntington as members, Mr. Merou devoted
the time of his vacation to the work ; the first three months to organizing
and to obtaining the necessary official help ; the last three months to the
work itself, which he prosecuted in the archives of the Ministry of War.
After his return to the United States, in January last, the work was con-
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tinued on the lines established by him under the supervision of Col. Chaille-
Long and M. Lacour-Gayet, the latter Professor of History at the Ecole
Superieure de la Marine, of Paris, in the archives of the navy ; and in the
archives of the War Department by an intelligent secretary, assisted by the
administration of the war archives. Mr. Merou presented, on the 15th day
of December, 1900, his official report to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The work in the archives of the War Department, with reference to the land
army, was finished in April last ; and the work in the archives of the navy
in August last. About 6,000 to 7,000 officers and soldiers of the land army
and more than 50,000 officers and men of the navy have thus been found,
with Christian and family names, with dates and places of birth, and with
observations proving their participation in the War for American Inde-
pendence.
On behalf of Consul Merou, your Secretary-General submitted this matter
to the members of the National Sons of the American Revolution Executive
Committee to take such action as they might deem appropriate in encourag-
ing and assisting in the great work so satisfactorily prosecuted by Mr.
Merou, and so generously and effectively co-operated in by the various depart-
ments of the French Government. The Secretary-General's report of the
matter to the Executive Committee stated that Consul Merou had requested
his government to publish this important work at the State's expense ; but
that being now far from France, and being unable to take any personal
steps in Paris toward the desired fulfillment, as soon as possible, of the
publication of the now completed work, he would be thankful if the National
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution would take the matter in
hand in the requesting of the United States Ambassador, Gen. Horace
Porter, to do what he may deem appropriate in order that the proposed
publication be not delayed. The report set forth that such a French publica-
tion would be extremely useful in France in ascertaining the descendants
of the fighters ; and that if, afterward, a translation into English could be
made and published by the Government of the United States, universities,
students and investigators in this country might be greatly profited thereby,
as well as the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
After having received this report, the National Executive Committee took
the following action :
Whereas, The report made through Secretary-General Gross by Mr.
Henri Merou, French Consul in Chicago, honorary member of the Illinois
Society S. A. R., and General Horace Porter, ex-President of the National
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and Ambassador of the
United States 10 the Government of France, shows that an exceedingly
advantageous and effective work has been accomplished by their conjoint
efforts, assisted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of War and Marine
in France, in ascertaining the names and services of 50,000 French sailors
and over 7,000 French soldiers who assisted the colonists in the War of the
American Revolution ; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the National Executive Committee of the Society of the
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Sons of the American Revolution hereby tenders its appreciative congratula-
tions and warm thanks to the gentlemen mentioned for their untiring efforts
in the direction stated, and likewise to the French Ministers of Foreign
Affairs, of War and Marine, in so ably seconding their efforts in aiding
them to secure the information desired ; and, be it further
Resolved, That this body requests Ambassador-General Horace Porter to
use what influence he may, which shall not be inconsistent with the duties
of his diplomatic office, to secure the printing, on the part of the French
Government, of the complete lists of the French soldiers and sailors who
rendered service in assisting to establish the independence of the American
colony in the War of the American Revolution.
These resolutions were signed by all the members of the National Executive
Committee.
Consul Merou has recently had word from the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs and from the French Minister of War that the French Government
has granted the requests made through the various channels herein indicated,
and is now engaged in the full publication of the entire list of about 60,000
French soldiers and sailors who participated in the Revolutionary War,
together with a brief of their services and other information obtained, which
will soon be ready for distribution. It remains for this National Society
to determine whether it will take any action urging upon our own Govern-
ment the undertaking of translating and publishing an English version of
these lists for use in this country when the French Government shall have
completed their publication in France. It would seem that such a translated
work placed in the leading libraries of this country, and accessible to all
seeking Revolutionary descent, would be of incalculable value to the building
up of our organization.
Another great advance which our organization has made in the foreign
field has been the organization of a flourishing chapter of the Society in the
Philippine Islands, which result is attributable chiefly to the earnest effort
in this behalf of our ex-President-General, General J. C. Breckinridge. Okla-
homa has also been added to the list of State and territorial societies, provid-
ing their list of charter members passes the scrutiny of our Registrar-
General and the Society is accorded a charter. Of these two new acquisi-
tions, you will doubtless learn more fully from the report of the Registrar-
General.
As a comparatively small number only of the State societies have sent in
their annual reports, and as many of those which have been sent in are
somewhat voluminous, it has seemed wise to omit the customary summary
of these State reports from this Annual Report, and to let them appear in
the annual year book for the year, when all shall have been received, under
a separate heading of State Society reports.
Save for the irreparable loss of its honored compatriot, President William
McKinley, the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution, has had
occasion to mourn the loss of a much smaller proportion of representative
members than for a number of years past. A committee was appointed by
President-General Logan to draft resolutions in respect to the death of
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President McKinley. This committee consists of Judge Whitehead, Judge
Hancock, Charles W. Haskins and General Francis Appleton.
A communication received by your President-General from the Pennsyl-
vania Society announces that that State Society proposes to erect an
equestrian statue of Major-General Anthony Wayne, for which purpose they
already have a fund of over $5,000, and they respectfully invite the assistance
of national organization for the accomplishment of this object.
An amendment has been proposed to the National Constitution this year
by the Pennsylvania Society, copies of which have been duly forwarded to
the various State societies, in accordance with Article VIII. of the Con-
stitution. The proposed amendments will come up for action thereon in the
due course of these proceedings.
Once more your Secretary-General extends his thanks to the executive
officers of the National Society, as well as to all State officers, for their aid
and co-operation in the prosecution of matters coming within the scope of
the office with which you honored him. Very respectfully submitted,
Samuel Eberly Gross, Secretary-General.
REPORT OF STATE SOCIETIES.
Arkansas. — Nothing of special interest transpired during said year in the
events of this society, but we have been somewhat encouraged by the addi-
tion of five new members to our number, and are advised of others engaged
in perfecting details as to lineage with a view of applying. Our Anniversary
meeting, February 22, was a highly successful and enjoyable affair, well in
keeping with others heretofore held by us.
Fay Hempstead, Secretary.
California. — A steady and satisfactory growth has been experienced.
The number of members at last report was 323. Thirty-four new members
have been added since ; 10 have died and 2 were dropped from the roll of
membership — making a net gain of 22 during the year and a present mem-
bership of 345, with 7 applications in hand ; 29 of these belong to the
Southern California Branch located at San Diego.
Two banquets have been held — one on the 17th day of October, 1901, to
commemorate the Surrender of Burgoyne, and the other on February 22 of
this year, which were largely attended and greatly enjoyed. The addresses
will be published.
To promote closer social intercourse among the members, it has been
decided to hold frequent meetings of an informal character to discuss some
notable event or personage of the Revolution. The life, character and
exploits of the naval hero, John Paul Jones, was the subject of a paper
read at a meeting held November 25, 1901, when some 50 of the members
participated in the discussion that followed.
Another meeting of a similar character has been appointed for April 19,
1902, when a paper will be read and discussed upon the life and character of
Captain Parker, one of the heroes of Lexington.
An association called the American Rifle Club, composed solely of mem-
bers of the S. A. R., has been organized as an adjunct of this Society, and
has had its first annual shoot, at which a badge of the Society constituted
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the prize. It will be conducted on purely American lines, and particularly
encourage the use of Government arms and ammunition.
The reception to President McKinley by this Society during his visit last
year marked an event in our annals that may perhaps never be equaled in
importance. His feeling words and kindly presence endeared him to all, and
his untimely death, only a few weeks later, by the hands of a vile assassin,
evoked resolutions expressive of horror at the act and sympathy for the
bereaved family and nation.
The California Society more than a year ago undertook for the first time
in its history the publication of a Register, similar in character to those of
other State societies. The enterprise was fully commenced before the project
of a National Register took definite form ; hence it was found impossible to
give the support to that publication as would have been given otherwise.
Eight copies have been subscribed for to distribute among the libraries.
Edwin Bonnell,
Secretary.
Colorado. — The past year has been a most prosperous one for the Colorado
Society, Sons of the American Revolution. The first meeting of the year was
held August 23, when an informal reception at the Albany Hotel was ten-
dered President-General Walter S. Logan, who was in Denver at the meeting
of the American Bar Association. The members of the Society greatly
enjoyed the words of greeting and encouragement which Mr. Logan gave.
He was presented with a valuable album of Colorado views as a souvenir
of his visit to the State.
The regular September meeting was adjourned out of respect to the
memory of our beloved compatriot, the late President McKinley. The
Society joined in the memorial parade and exercises. This was the first
public appearance of the Society, and it has received many words of com-
mendation for the splendid showing made under the command of Col. A. W.
Corliss.
The regular monthly meetings began in October and continued until
March. These consisted of papers and addresses upon the part taken by
the several original States in the War of the Revolution, and were exceed-
ingly interesting and instructive. Much credit is due Mr. Chauncey Curtis.
Chairman, and the other members of the entertainment committee for the
excellent programmes presented.
The growth of the Society has been very gratifying, and we may confi-
dently look forward to another year of prosperity.
Harold C. Stephens,
Secretary.
Connecticut. — The most important work accomplished by this Society is
the removal and restoration of the Nathan Hale school house, at New
London, Conn., which was completed on the 17th of June, 1901, with appro-
priate ceremonies, including a street parade, in which the Putnam Phalanx
a naval corps, and three companies of the Connecticut National Guard
joined with members of the Society and guests. The literary exercises included
an oration by the President-General and a historical address bv Professor
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Henry P. Johnston, of the College of the City of New York. The amount
of money involved in the entire undertaking of purchasing, restoring and
dedicating this historic building is over $6,000, of which about $4,500 was
contributed by members of the Society or taken from the Society's funds.
The thirteenth annual celebration of Washington's birthday took place at
New Haven on the 22d of February, 1902, and was attended by about 250
members, notwithstanding a severe storm, which made it impossible to reach
New Haven from remote parts of the State.
Seven hundred and thirty markers for graves of Revolutionary soldiers
and patriots have been issued by the Society, upon the regular form of appli-
cation, and duly placed on the graves, as permanent memorials.
The present membership of the Society is 1,017, 34 new members having
been admitted to the Society during the year. C. G. Stone,
Secretary.
Delawake.— I report an active and prosperous year. The meetings of the
Society have been well attended and twenty new members have been
admitted.
Flag day, June 14, was celebrated by a meeting of the Society in Wilming-
ton, with an address by Lieutenant John M. Dunn, recently returned from
service with the army in the Philippines.
On August 30 the Society presented to the Wilmington City Park
Commission two cannon to be used in decorating Washington Heights, on
the Brandywine, overlooking the ground occupied by General Washington's
army during his occupancy of Wilmington just before the Battle of the
Brandywine.
On September 3 the Society, with the assistance of the other patriotic
societies of the State, unveiled the monument at Cooch's Bridge, marking
the spot where the Stars and Stripes were first unfurled in battle, on Sep-
tember 3, 1777. The exercises included addresses by President-General
Walter S. Logan, of the National Society ; Gen. James H. Wilson, U. S. A. ;
Hon. John Hunn, Governor of Delaware, and Robert G. Houston, Esq. The
historical address was by Henry C. Conrad, Esq., which has since been
published.
The annual meeting of the Society on December 7 was largely attended,
with usual interest.
On December 7 the Society presented a silver loving-cup to Mrs. Elizabeth
C. Churchman, State Regent of the D. A. R., in recognition of her patriotism
and her valued assistance in securing the Cooch's Bridge Memorial.
Washington's Birthday, February 22, was celebrated with a successful
and largely attended dinner in the Hotel Wilmington, with addresses by
Governor Hunn, Gen. James H. Wilson, U. S. A. ; ex-United States Senator
Anthony Higgins and Hon. John Biggs. Before the dinner a silver loving-
cup was presented to ex-President Howard DeHaven Ross, in recognition of
his generous and successful administration as President of the Delaware
Society.
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The Society begs to thank the officers of the National Society for their
prompt and courteous co-operation in the work of the year.
D. Brainerd Ferris, Jr.,
Secretary.
Florida. — Two members have died and one new member has been admitted
during the past year, making membership at the annual meeting, February
22, 1902, 34. One new member has been elected during the current month,
which makes present membership 35, same as reported last year.
The sixth annual meeting, February 22, was well attended and the interest
manifested gave much encouragement for the future.
The Florida Society has subscribed for one copy of the National Registrar
for each of its members and one for each library in the State, believing this
to be one of the best ways of creating an interest in the Society and of calling
attention to its objects ; also aiding many in obtaining proof of eligibility.
We hope to have a full representation at the National Congress in
Washington. W. O. H. Shepard.
Secretary.
France. — The only event of special interest in connection with our Society
during the past year was the very impressive ceremony presided over by
General Horace Porter at the tomb of Lafayette, in the Cemetery of Picpus,
at Paris, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1901. In the last annual report men-
tion was made of the searches in the French National Archives to establish
the list of names of the French soldiers and sailors who assisted in the War
of American Independence. This difficult work, undertaken by a committee of
our Society, has now been accomplished. The lists are completed, and it may
be of interest for the National Congress of the Society to know that the pub-
lication of these lists, containing thousands of names, is expected to be made
at an early date. E. P. MacLean,
Secretary.
Illinois. — The report of this Society for the year now ending shows a net
loss in membership. Two deaths in the ranks removed two men whose
fathers fought in the war for liberty, P. M. Blodgett and Henry K. Elkins,
and but two of these distinguished members remain-
Five meetings were held during the year, all of which were interesting to
the members, made so by lectures, papers on historical subjects, etc. April
19 and October 19, 1901, were celebrated with banquets.
Arrangements are being made for the erection of a granite boulder over
the grave of the last survivor of the Boston Tea Party, who now lies buried
in Lincoln Park — David Kennison.
In conjunction with the Daughters of the American Revolution, money
has been appropriated for the placing of a minature statue of the Minute
Men in one of the schools and a copy of the Declaration of Independence
will be placed in all schools. John D. Vandercook,
Secretary.
Iowa. — The number of members at the date of the last report
was 147
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Gained upon application 20
Gained upon restoration 1
Total membership 168
Loss by death 3
Loss by resignation 3
Loss by transfer 1
— 7
Present membership 161
A steady, though small, gain in membership annually, made in the face
of considerable losses, is a source of satisfaction to our compatriots.
A chapter has been organized within the year at Wapello, Iowa, and is in
a healthy condition. Five chapters have been organized in Iowa, and they
are promoters of prosperity wherever the members are active and earnest.
Ben Franklin Chapter, of Des Moines, is the most active, as well as the
largest. It has a membership of forty compariots, and meetings nave been
held in October, November, December, January and March, at which papers
of much merit and more than passing interest were read upon such topics
as "The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown," "The Campaign for the
Conquest of Canada," "Valley Forge," "Battle of Cowpens," "Jesuit Explora-
tions and Discovery of Iowa." The compatriots are urged to bring ladies,
and they come gladly. By giving these meetings at the houses of compatriots
a social character, their popularity and success are assured and "eligibles"
are interested.
A bi-monthly bulletin has been started by the Secretary, called "The Old
Continental," of which four issues have been circulated. The expense has
thus far been borne by the Society. News items having relation to the
Society in general and the Iowa Society and its compatriots in particular
have been published in each issue, with the Revolutionary Records of each
ancestor referred to in the new applications, with selections touching upon
Revolutionary topics. "The Old Continental" is believed to have demon-
strated its usefulness.
The preparations for the annual meeting and banquet, to have been held
February 21, were practically complete when the action of the Board of
Health in reference to smallpox rendered it necessary to postpone the meet-
ing, and the date for the same was fixed for April 17, that date being sub-
stituted for April 19, or Lexington Day, for the convenience of the com-
patriots from distant points.
The efforts of the D. A. R. to secure from the Legislature of Iowa an
appropriation to buy ground hallowed by the ashes of a Revolutionary soldier
and to erect a monument over his unmarked grave have been seconded by
this Society, and the appropriation has been secured.
The Iowa Society fervently cherishes our motto of "Libertas et patria,"
and commends it to all compatriots. Elbeidge D. Hadley,
Secretary.
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Kentucky.' — No meeting was held from stated meeting in 1900 to stated
meeting in 1901. I enclose list of officers elected at that meeting. For first
time in several years, the Treasurer's report showed a nice cash balance.
December 26, 1901, the Society met to commemorate Battle of Trenton.
After an enjoyable evening an amendment to by-laws was offered to lay
over that in lieu of one meeting annually. The Society met 17th of January
— Oowpens ; 19th April — Lexington and Concord ; 17th June — Bunker Hill,
and 19th October — Yorktown. A motion prevailed that we observe these
days until October, when by-laws can be acted upon. Also to change by-laws
of Society to vote on petition in lieu of committee. Secret ballot.
The Society met January 17. A petition coming with meeting. Proved
a very pleasant occasion and created interest. Met again 19th April. Two
petitions, and find interest growing, and believe will have largest attendance
of delegates at Washington the Society has as yet sent.
Phil T. Axlin,
Secretary.
Louisiana. — The Louisiana Society has held its own during the past
year, and it would not be throwing bouquets to say that it has progressed in
more ways than one — for instance, an increase of nearly twenty-five per cent,
in our active membership ; a closer fraternization among compatriots, as
shown by the majority of our members to the call of the banquet committee
on the occasion of our annual dinner, held to properly celebrate Washington's
Birthday, when we had quite a love feast, besides the honor of hearing an
address from the Mayor of New Orleans, who remained with us all the
evening, having declined several other important invitations simply because
we were the first in the field and would not divide the honors with any others.
The adoption of a "work" in harmony with the national spirit of our
National Society, and most congenial to the taste and feelings of our fellow
members, the marking of the grave of a Revolutionary soldier who we heard
was buried in the old St. Louis Cemetery, and long since, like the majority
of the graves of our Revolutionary soldiers, abandoned and left uncared for.
A committee has been appointed to look after this case, and that of three
graves of ex-soldiers of the War of 1812 which also remains neglected and
almost unknown.
In this latter case we intend to take the matter up with Department at
Washington, and request permission to remove the remains of these brave
men to the beautiful burying place of ex-United States soldiers — Chalmette.
Finally, we have also resolved to do a little missionary work for the up-
building of the National Society and its increase of membership, and that is :
the Louisiana Society has voted heartily to second the efforts of one of its
most influential and distinguished members — Judge McCaleb, delegate-at-
large to National Congress — to influence his large circle of acquaintances
in the State of Mississippi to come in and join us, and that after we have
secured a sufficient number of eligibles from that State we will take further
steps to organize a Mississippi Society.
We have been looking over the outlook for Alabama also, and hope by the
next Congress to send on a favorable report of the reward of our patriotic
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efforts. Mississippi and Alabama should both have a State Society, and as
they are sister States, it won't be the fault of the Louisiana Society if they
are not represented in the National Congress of 1903.
Wishing the present Congress every success and all the pleasure that has
been promised the delegates, I remain, Thomas Dabney Dimitry,
Secretary.
Maine. — The Maine Society has had a prosperous year. Our present
membership is 355. During the year our Historian, Mr. Nathan Goold, has
been requested to prepare a list of the Revolutionary soldiers buried in
Maine, with such facts concerning the place of burial, inscription on tomb-
stone, etc., as it is possible now to obtain. Already he has quite a large list.
When he has made it as complete as it can be made, it will be published by
the Society. The Society, at its annual meeting, February 22, 1902, voted
to publish a new roll of members during the present year. The last roll
was published in 1897. Since then more than 100 names have been added.
The annual meeting was held in the Casino at Riverton Park, Portland.
The after-dinner speakers were the President, Col. Horace H. Burbank, of
Saco ; Hon. Frederic E. Boothby, Mayor of Portland ; Hon. Charles F.
Libby, Portland, and Rev. Francis B. Denis, of Bangor. It was an exceed-
ingly delightful occasion. H. S. Burrage,
Secretary.
Massachusetts. — We report a slightly increased membership, the total
being 1,421, of which 21 are really sons of soldiers who did actual service in
the Revolution. The youngest among these veterans is 63 years of age ; the
oldest, Mr. Roby Fletcher, of Fitchburg, is 99.
The Society has thirteen chapters in the larger cities of the State — local
organizations, strictly of members of State Society, which have had an
important influence in strengthening the organization and in arousing
patriotism.
Besides the annual meeting on the 19th of April, held in the historic old
South Meeting House, and followed by a banquet, the Society has held a
field day on the Lexington Battle Grounds, on the anniversary of Corn-
wallis' surrender, and also celebrated the birthday of Washington at the
Hotel Vendome. At all of these gatherings patriotic remarks were made by
distinguished speakers.
The Society has during the year published a Year Book of about 300
pages, together with a volume containing the names and burial places of
about 4,500 soldiers in the Revolution. These are in the State and else-
where, all designated by the authorized motto of the National Society, placed
there by the vote of cities and towns or by individual contributors.
The Society is about to place a granite boulder, with a bronze tablet, at
the grave of Brigadier-General John Greaton, who is buried in the Eustis
Street Burying Ground at Roxbury. His honorable and arduous service
throughout the entire war induced the disease from which he died in 1783.
The Society not only gave to each member a copy of its last Year Book,
but has distributed its Year Books of 1899 and 1901 freely among the other
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State societies, to the 350 city and town libraries of the State and to many
other libraries and historical societies throughout the country.
During the year the Society, at the urgent request of certain of its chap-
ters, gave a rebate of part of the annual dues to members of the parent bodj
who were in good standing. The State Society desired in this way to give
encouragement to the chapter in order to induce them to put forth fresh
exertions for the spread of our principles.
The Board of Managers have held all meetings at its headquarters, and is
constantly alert to advance the interest of the body.
Francis H. Brown,
President.
Michigan. — The Michigan Society continues steadily to increase in num-
bers, twenty-six new members having been added to the roster during the
year. The Western Michigan Chapter, with headquarters at Grand Rapids,
is in a flourishing condition, and assurances are given that the membership
of both the State Society and the Chapter will be considerably augmented
as a consequence of the interest taken in that part of the State through the
exertion of the officers and individuals of the Chapter.
The most important event of the year for the Society was the unveiling
of a handsome bronze tablet to the memory of General Anthony Wayne,
U. S. A., on the afternoon of October 19, the one hundred and twentieth
anniversary of the Surrender of Yorktown. The tablet, bearing in has relief
the portrait of the General, was unveiled with impressive ceremony. A
lineal descendant, little Miss Evelyn Warren, pulled aside the flag and
exposing the very handsome art work, which fittingly and conspicuously
decorates the south pylon of the portico, at the main entrance to the
magnificent new Wayne County Building in the City of Detroit. The tablet
bears the following inscription :
"This tablet is erected as a tribute to Major-General Anthony
Wayne, U. S. A., to whom the British surrendered this region July
Eleventh, Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-six, and in whose honor
Wayne County was created and named, August Fifteenth, Seven-
teen Hundred and Ninety-six. This county, as then established,
embraced nearly all of the present State of Michigan and portions
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, including the sites of
Chicago and Milwaukee and parts of Fort Wayne and Cleveland."
Appropriate speeches by Compatriot Hon. John B. Corliss, Member of
Congress, and Hon. R. E. Frazer, one of the Circuit Court Judges for Wayne
County, concluded the ceremonies, after which the Society entertained a
large number of distinguished guests at an informal luncheon at the Russell
House.
The annual banquet was held in the Russell House on Washington's
Birthday, and the Society was exceedingly fortunate in having for their
guest Lieutenant-Commander F. W. Bartlett, U. S. Navy, a Detroit boy, a
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graduate of the Naval Academy, and who, during the war with Spain,
rendered conspicuous service on the dynamite cruiser "Vesuvius."
Henry S. Sibley,
Secretary.
Montana. — The past year has been without much of especial interest to
report. Three new members have joined the Montana State Society and
others have commenced correspondence which we hope will result in their
becoming active members before the season is over.
The annual meeting of the Society was held on February 22, at which
meeting new officers were elected and delegates were chosn for the National
Congress.
A social session was also held on this date, and the entire city membership
of the Society was present. Toasts were read and delivered suitable to the
day which we have chosen to hold our annual meeting. A grandson of a
Revolutionary soldier was present as a member, and took an active part,
having ridden horseback over the mountain for sixty-five miles to be present
at the meeting. Frank H. Crowell,
Secretary.
Nebraska. — During the year the Society conducted a course of study of
the Revolution, which is fully set forth in the Year Book, which I attach.
These meetings have brought about a livening interest in the work and
object of the Society, and have shown good results in bringing in new
members and a number of inquiries of prospective members who are endeav-
oring to prove their eligibility. The total number of new members admitted
during the year is thirteen, and since the annual meeting we have received a
number of applications. The course of entertainments has been continued to
cover the present year, and I enclose the Year Book of the Society, which
has just been published. P. B. Alexander,
Secretary.
New York. — Your Secretary takes pleasure in herewith submitting his
annual report of the proceedings of the Society for the past year, to wit:
from February 27, 1901, to February 26, 1902, for your consideration.
The membership statistics are as follows :
Total membership, as per last report 1,203
Admission by election to membership 113
Admission by transfer from other States 6
1,322
Losses by transfer to other States 1
Losses by death 7
Losses by resignation 25
Losses by dropping for indebtedness 3
36
Total membership, February 26, 1902 1,286
Of which 1 is an honorary life member ;
6 are honorary members ;
12 are life members.
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Total admission since the organization 1,647
Total deductions for the same period 361
Membership as above stated, February 26, 1902 1,286
During the past year five regular meetings of the Society have been held.
On February 26 last the annual election of officers took place at the annual
meeting and was followed by a collation.
At the March meeting action was taken and a committee of five appointed
to consider the advisability of having a series of lectures on patriotic sub-
jects during the Exposition at Buffalo, and the sum of $250 appropriated
for the furtherance of the same. After due consideration in regard to the
same, the Chairman of the committee decided that the plan was not feasible
and the matter was dropped. Mr. Spedon entertained the members present
at this meeting by drawing sketches and accompanying his work with
remarks of a humorous character.
At the meeting in May, upon the invitation of our President, Walter S.
Logan, the members and their ladies met at the Marine and Field Club,
Bath Beach, Long Island, on the afternoon and evening of the 21st. After
dinner the party was addressed by President Logan, after which Compatriot
Rev. Jesse L, Hurlbut was presented with an insignia of the Society, the
presentation address being delivered by Compatriot Edward Payson Cone.
The Society was then entertained by recitations of a mirthful nature and
addresses which were interesting and instructive as well as patriotic.
On May 28 last the Society lost by death one of its most esteemed com-
patriots, General Thomas Wilson, whose loss is much regretted. A com-
mittee was appointed, of which Compatriot Stephen M. Wright was Chair-
man, who prepared a set of resolutions on the death of General Wilson.
The same was adopted by the Board, handsomely engrossed and bound, and
forwarded to the family.
The meeting of the Society which was held at Saratoga on September 19
last was postponed, as we were called upon to mourn the loss of another of
our compatriots on September 14, that of William MjcKinley, President of
the United States. A special meeting of the Board was called and resolu-
tions adopted, the Chair appointing Compatriots Walter S. Logan, Hon. C.
A. Pugsley, Charles W. Haskins, William H. Wayne, Louis H. Cornish and
Charles B. Provost to attend the funeral. The meeting was addressed by
Mr. Farnham, of the Saratoga Business Men's Association, who was most
cordial in his invitation to have another meeting appointed, to be held at
Saratoga. This matter was left in the hands of the Entertainment Com-
mittee.
The October meeting was held at Grant City, Staten Island, N. Y., where
a game dinner was enjoyed by the members present. At this meeting $500
was appropriated by the Society toward the expenses which would be
incurred at the Fort Washington celebration. On November 16, 1901, the
Empire State Society, S. A. R., in co-operation with the American Scenic
and Historic Preservation Society, erected a tablet on the site of Fort
Washington, on the property of James Gordon Bennett, through whose
generosity the cost of the memorial was defrayed. The erection of this
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memorial and the exercises during the entire day were a complete success,
and did more toward making the Society known than many are aware of.
At the December meeting the Society combined with the order of Founders
and Patriots and held a joint meeting at Sherry's. At this meeting the
budget of estimated expenditures for the fiscal year was presented by the
Chairman of the Finance Committee to the Society, and the same was
adopted.
At the February meeting of the Society, held at the National Arts Club,
Compatriot Louis H. Cornish very kindly delivered his lecture entitled
"Things Puritanical in New England," which was enjoyed by all present
The annual report of the Treasurer was read and received, as was also the
report of the Nominating Committee. There was present at this meeting a
uniformed detail of the Washington Continental Guard.
During the past year the Board of Management has held ten special and
regular meetings, all of which have been well attended.
Two petitions for the formation of chapters have been received — one in
Fort Edward, Washington County, to be called the Adirondack Chapter, and
one in Herkimer, Herkimer County, to be called the Mohawk Valley Chapter.
With the addition of these last two, we will now have nine local chapters.
In closing this report, your Secretary wishes to thank our President and
the Board of Management for the universally kind consideration shown him,
and to offer to the Society his best wishes for continued success and growth
in the membership, and that the future will show a still greater influence for
the fostering of patriotism in this, the Empire State Society.
Edwin Van D. Gazzam,
Secretary.
Ohio. — The Ohio Society has had a very quiet but prosperous year. The
membership has been materially increased. We have lost by death twelve
members and by transfer to other societies six. A large number of graves of
Revolution soldiers have been located and steps taken to have monuments
placed over them. The annual meeting was well attended, and the banquet
held in the evening was a most enjoyable affair. Much interest is being taken
in the working of our Society, and the membership promises this year to be
very large. R. M. Davidson,
Secretary.
Pennsylvania. — The Pennsylvania Society reports a year of most grati-
fying progress and success.
During the year, from February 22, 1901, to February 22, 1902, 112 new
members were added to the Society.
The total active membership at the end of the year was 354.
The great and distinguished event of the year for our Society was the
meeting of the National Congress at Pittsburg. The pleasure afforded to us
by that opportunity of entertaining our compatriots from the length and
breadth of the land lingers with us, and will long linger in most delightful
memories of the occasion. Not only so, but the presence of the Congress in
our midst furnished a stimulus to our interest in the work and objects of
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the Society which has been most beneficial, and the effects of which will not
be lost until our turn to entertain the Congress comes round again.
Our members have been more actively interested in public patriotic work
than ever heretofore. We took part, together with the Grand Army of
Republic and other patriotic societies, in public celebrations of Memorial
Day and Flag Day. A systematic effort has been begun to identify and
mark graves of Revolutionary soldiers within our jurisdiction. We have also
engaged in several enterprises of a local character, which have not yet borne
their fruits, but which we hope to report as successfully accomplished in the
future. Thomas Stephen Brown,
Secretary.
Rhode Island. — This Society is in a healthy condition.
Active membership on rolls February 22, 1901 257
Number admitted past year 19
276
Number lost by death 10
Number dropped . 10
— 20
Active members on rolls this date 256
May 30, 1901, Memorial Day, members of this Society accompanied the
Farragut Association of Naval Veterans of the Civil War to the statue of
Admiral Esek Hopkins, at Hopkins Park, in this city, decorated the monu-
ment with a floral anchor, and placed a grave marker of the S. A. R. in
front of the monument.
June 6, Nathaniel Green Day, established by act of Legislature of the
State, was observed at the Mathewson Street Church, in this city, by the
Daughters of the American Revolution of Gaspee Chapter, and the Sons of
this Society. Asa Bird Gardiner, President of the Rhode Island Society of
Cincinnati, delivered an address, and several interesting papers were read by
members of the Greene family relating to General Nathaniel Greene.
June 14, Flag Day, the Society presented a portrait of George Washington
to the Hope Street High School, Providence. The address was made by
Compatriot William Elisha Dyer, and patriotic songs were sung by the
scholars.
July 4 the Declaration of Independence was read by Compatriot Captain
John R. Bartlett, U. S. Navy, retired, before the Brigade of Rhode Island
Militia assembled at the Dexter Training Ground, in this city. Many mem-
bers were present, and the Brigade bands, united, played the "Star Spangled
Banner" and "America."
September 19 this Society in a body attended the State memorial service
in memory of our late compatriot, William McKinley, at the First Baptist
Meeting House, Providence, the service being most impressive.
October 11, 1901, our late President, George Allen Buffum, departed this
life, honored and respected. Many members attended his funeral.
November 16 Captain Richard Hobson lectured at Sayles' Memorial Hall,
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under the auspices of Pawtucket Chapter, D. A. R., members of this Society
being invited.
The Society has presented an American flag and flag staff to the Rhode
Island Historical Society, of this city, to be put upon their building.
The Legislature of Rhode Island, at its last session, passed an act relating
to the desecration of the American flag. I will send you a copy of this bill
soon. Christopher Rhodes,
Secretary.
Texas. — This Society has experienced so much difficulty and so many
obstacles within the last year, as also in former ones, in increasing its mem-
bership, owing to the trouble, and in some cases impossibility of obtaining
satisfactory record of service during the Revolutionary War, that its num-
bers are very slightly increased ; being at present thirty-five. It is believed,
however, that with the publication of the National Register many past diffi-
culties of the nature specified will be removed. But it is here urged that the
Register will not answer for all, and that in cases where applicants depend
upon the records of Virginia, for instance, to show service in the colonial
troops from that State, it is often found that, owing to the destruction of
most of these records, many who are eligible to membership in this Society
are excluded therefrom. And it is therefore urged that other than record-
evidence of service should be accepted when it is made to appear that no
records of such service exist but satisfactory evidence of another kind can be
obtained.
But if the Texas Society is small in numbers, it is enthusiastic. At the
annual meeting of this Society, held at Galveston, Feb. 22, 1902 (the first in
two years ; for owing to the storm of Sept. 8, 1900, at Galveston, where
most of the members of the Society are gathered, no meeting was held in
1901), the attendance was very gratifying, and encouraged all present to
advocate from now on the organization of chapters of the S. A. R. in various
localities of the State. This will, it is believed, stimulate a keener interest
in the objects of the Society and be productive of closer relation among the
members, and an increase of importance in the membership throughout the
State.
Appropriate resolutions upon the death of Col. John William French, U.
S. A., and Lucian Miner, of Galveston, were presented at the annual meet-
ing and entered upon the minutes of the Society. Both of these members
were a great loss, and it was accentuated by the further loss, through re-
moval from the State, of H. B. McGavock and Chas. Walter Preston, both
of Galveston. The Society of this State lost these members within the last
two years.
The address of the President of the Society at the annual meeting re-
flected the work of the National and State societies, and was particularly
interesting by reason of its discussion of the benefits which are likely to
accrue to all State societies from the publication of the National Register.
The annual election of officers of the Society resulted as follows : Presi-
dent, Hon. Ira H. Evans, of Austin ; First Vice-President, William F.
Beers, of Galveston ; Second Vice-President, W. H. Young, of Palestine ;
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Treasurer, Edward R. Girardeau, of Galveston ; Registrar and Historian,
J. T. Huffmaster, of Galveston; Secretary, Clay S. Briggs. Together with
the officers already named, Robert G. West and William G. Bell, both of
Austin; Newell Kane, of Palestine, and E. D. Dorchester, of Velasco, were
elected to serve on the State Board of Management.
Clay S. Briggs, of Galveston, was elected delegate at large from the
Society to the National Convention to be held at Washington, D. C, April
30, May 1 and 2, 1902. Clay S. Briggs,
Secretary.
Vermont. — The Vermont Society has suffered a great loss since the meet-
ing of the National Congress last year by the death of General Julius Jacob
Estey, our honored President and compatriot. He was a pioneer in the
organization of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in Ver-
mont, and from the first was an active and influential member. He filled
most acceptably the various offices to which he was elected, and as a mem-
ber of the Board of Managers, Vice-President and President of the Society
and a delegate to the National Congress four years materially advanced the
interests of the S. A. R.
General Estey was elected President of the Vermont Society at the an-
nual meeting in November, 1900, and re-elected in 1901. During the six-
teen months of his administration the Society enjoyed a new lease of life,
and experienced a marked degree of prosperity, and some twenty representa-
tive descendants of Revolutionary ancestors were added to the register of the
Society. One of the last acts on the day before he was called from earth
was to affix his signature to a dozen certificates of membership received from
the National Registrar.
General Estey rendered valuable service to the Society, as well as to the
State, in inaugurating and successfully executing a plan for locating the
graves of soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Vermont. He
secured one or more persons in each town and city to assist in the work,
and as a result nearly three hundred graves have been located and the names
secured of this number of heroic dead of the American Revolution who rest
beneath the soil of the Green Mountain State.
The Society will carry out the plan of the late President and cause the
graves to be marked with appropriate tablets and the names of the honored
dead to be published for the use of the Society and the people of Vermont.
The Vermont Society has taken much interest in the publication of the
National Register. General Estey heartily favored the proposition from the
first, and advocated the resolution wThich was unanimously passed by the
Society at its last annual meeting providing for the purchase by the Society
of a sufficient number of copies of the new National Register to supply
each public library in Vermont, and also the libraries of schools and colleges
with a copy. The number required for this purpose will be a little less
than one hundred copies. In addition to this order placed by the Society,
individual members have ordered copies.
The vacancy in the office of President caused by the death of General
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Estey will be filled until the next annual meeting by the Vice-President,
Hon. Fletcher D. Proctor, as acting President.
The Board of Managers have passed memorial resolutions upon the death
of its late President, which are given below :
Resolutions on the Death of Julius Jacob Estey.
Whereas, It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from us Julius
Jacob Estey, President of the Vermont Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution ; and
Whereas, It is fitting that a recognition of his life and usefulness and
his many virtues should be made by those who had the privilege of coming
within the bright sphere of his manly and helpful influence ; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Board of Managers of the Vermont Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution express their sincere sorrow and sense of
loss in the death of General Estey. He was one of the first members of our
Society and was devoted to all its interests.
As President of the Vermont Society he won our increasing admiration
and sustained our highest regard. We hold him in affectionate remembrance
for his Christian character, his integrity, his patriotism, his genial person-
ality, his wide influence and his intelligent and devoted loyalty to this or-
ganization. It is with most unusual sorrow that we bring ourselves to think
of his departure from us, and we cannot too strongly express our estimate
of the loss sustained by our organization.
We extend to his family our sincerest sympathy, and count ourselves
among those who mourn beside his grave. As the world is poorer for his
death, so it is permanently richer by reason of his life.
Charles S. Forbes,
Secretary.
Fletcher D. Proctor,
Acting President.
A copy of these memorial resolutions has been forwarded to each State
Society, and can be had upon application to the Secretary.
In view of the meeting this year of the National Congress, it is not out of
place to mention the fact that a number of distinguished Vermonters, who
have permanent or temporary residences in Washington, are members of the
Society. The list includes Admiral George Dewey, Hon. Redfield Proctor,
United States Senator ; Hon. William P. Dillingham, United States Sena-
tor ; Hon. Kitredge Haskins, Representative from the Second Congres-
sional District ; Hon. C. H. Darling, Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; Col.
Myron M. Parker, and Hon. John .W. Titcomb, of the Department of
Fisheries.
Wisconsin. — Our Society has had a prosperous year. Its increase in
numbers has not been so great as we might have desired, for although we
have admitted a number of new members, this gain has been nearly neutral-
ized by our losses through death and by demission to other State societies.
At present we have two hundred and twenty-eight (228) active members.
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Our annual meeting, held at the Hotel Pfister in this city on May 29,
1901, was well attended, and in the evening the annual banquet of the
Society was given in the same place. It was a thoroughly enjoyable affair,
and the participants were entertained with good music and responses to
appropriate toasts.
In December an informal "Smoker" was tended to the members of the
Society by the President, and the evening was given over to story telling
and a general good time.
The finances of the Society are in a flourishing condition, as there is money
in the treasury and no outstanding indebtedness.
Frederic B. Bradford,
Secretary.
REPORT OF THE FRENCH SOCIETY, read by Colonel
Chaille-Long.
Colonel Chaille-Long preceded his report by the following re-
marks :
Although I have come 3,000 miles, I am accustomed somewhat
to the charge of being a Frenchman. In order to set your minds at
rest on that score, and to be perfectly at home with you, I may say
that I am a member of the Maryland Society and that I was born in
the classic regions of the Eastern Shore. Permit me to add a word
in addition to the report of our Secretary-General.
Mr. President-General and Compatriots : I have the distinguished honor
of presenting you my credentials as a delegate from the Society in France,
S. A. R., of which the United States Ambassador to France is the President
and Gaston de Lahune de Lafayette is the Vice-President.
It will be recalled that this branch of the National Society was founded
in Paris on the 16th of September, 1897, the original date of annual meet-
ing having been fixed for the 6th of September to commemorate the birthday
of Lafayette.
The action of our Society was limited for a time to serving as the inter-
mediary of the societies in America, and among these Lafayette Post of the
Grand Army of the Republic, which sends each Decoration Day wreaths to
lay upon the grave of General Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette, it will in-
terest you to recall, was buried in a remote spot of Paris in the cemetery
of the quaint little convent of Picpus, which takes its name from the follow-
ing composition, piquer, to bite, and puce, fleas ; flea-bites, an epidemic
which afflicted the people in the vicinity about 1797, or thereabouts. Victor
Hugo, the author of "Les Miserables," has placed in this cemetery one of
his most touching episodes. This singular, solitary, desolate spot is known
as Cuncture au Guillotines, and contains more than 1,300 victims, whose
epitaphs bear the such distinguished names of Gamache, Sombreuil, Rohan,
Chabol, Grammont, Beauharnais, Pascher da la Pagerie et al., who fell under
the blade of the guillotine, set up in the ancient harrier e du Trone.
The horizon of our Society in France has been greatly extended within
the space of one and a half years with the view of multiplying friendly
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relations and intercourse with France — create a reciprocal movement in
France and America in all departments of education, literature, art, politics
and commerce. A committee was appointed by our President to prepare
lists of all French officers, soldiers and sailors who took part in the war for
American independence. The committee appointed by Gen. Porter consisted
of M. Merou, Consul of France ; Mr. MacLean, Deputy Consul-General
United States at Paris ; Major Huntington and myself. In the month of
October, 1900, through the active sympathy and courtesy of M. Delcasse, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of France, and his colleagues,
the Ministers of War, Marine and Public Instruction, the committee pro-
ceeded to work, and were given access to the archives of the war and marine,
which in this case were located in the Archives Nationales in the Franc
Bourgeois. Two attaches of the War Department and two ship writers of
the Navy Department were placed under the orders of the committee, and
proceeded to overhaul the records, which had remained in the dusty, dingy
garrets where they had been dumped after the return to France of Count
Rochambeau, d'Estaing and Count de Grasse.
It is a part of the incidents attending the arduous labors of the com-
mittee, and significant of the character of the work, to say that my two
assistants were frequently ill, and that I, although much less exposed, con-
tracted three separate cases of grippe, which may have been contracted from
contact with the virus which had lain concealed in the dusty log books of
the fleets of d'Estaing and de Grasse. In this connection I desire to bring
to your notice and ask, Mr. President-General, that you accord them the
favor of your thanks, the following gentleman : Primo, M. Lacour-Gayet, the
eminent and sympathetic Professor at the Ecole Superieure de la Marine,
who generously and devotedly gave our committee the benefit of his erudi-
tion and vast experience. M. Lacour-Gayet, it so happens, was engaged in
making researches in the log books of the squadron of d'Orvillier in the
preparation of the pamphlet recently published, entitled "La Campagne
Navale de la Manche la 1779."
Secundo, Messrs. Michel and Laplanche, the ship writers to whom I
have alluded.
You may have some idea of the labor imposed upon these gentlemen when
you consider that there are 15,000 names of the army and navy, among other
inscriptions, to be deciphered with care from the defaced and sometimes
doubtful chirography.
The lists were finally completed in October, 1901, and were placed in the
hands of General Porter for transmission to the Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs for publication in book form.
In the course of my correspondence with the French Ministry, I seized
the occasion to signal the excellent services rendered the committee by M.
Lacour-Gayet, Michel and Laplanche, adding that I ardently hoped that the
character of the work accomplished would contribute in the largest measure
to bind in close bonds of friendship the two great sister republics.
The committee decides not to include for the present the squadron of
u'Orvilliers which was engaged in the War for American Independence in
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French waters as extending immeasurably the proposed publication. This
work was abandoned with some reluctance because one of the captains of
the fleet — de Bessey de la Vouste, killed in a severe battle with the British —
was a descendant of the family Chaille, and the incident is all the more
interesting because the ball that killed him wounded the Marquis du Chaf-
fault, Division Commander, whose descendant, Count Gabriel Charles Pat-
rice Billebaut du Chaffault, is a member of our Society in France.
In a communication from the Secretary I am instructed by General Porter
to say thai the lists of the officers, soldiers and sailors of the French army
and navy who participated in America in the War for American Independ-
ence are to be published conjointly by the French and American Govern-
ments.
Mr. President-General, with fifteen to 20,000 names on these lists, whose
descendants are citizens to-day both of France and America, the Society in
France expects to create a great society, which, by its numbers as well as
its Franco-American character, will contribute in the largest sense to bind
the two republics in a union political, scientific and commercial in the
interest of both.
On motion, duly seconded, the two reports above referred to were unani-
mously approved and directed to be placed on file and printed.
President-General Logan : The compatriot who has just
given us this interesting report has asked that we extend a vote of
thanks to those whose names he has mentioned there. I think I
will consider that as a motion. (Motion seconded and unani-
mously carried.) The vote of thanks reads as follows:
Vote of thanks for the services of M. Lacour-Gayet, Professor at the
Ecole Superieure de la Marine, for his sympathetic aid to the Committee
of the S. A. R. in the preparation of the lists of the French officers, sol-
diers and sailors who participated in the war for American independence.
Also the secretaries and attaches, MM. Michel and Laplanche, for their
arduous labors in the preparation of these lists under the supervision of the
Committee of the Society in France of the S. A. R., and that a copy of this
resolution be communicated to the Ambassador of the United States, General
Horace Porter.
Mr. Miller (Illinois) : Referring to the report of the Secre-
tary-General just read, I would like to offer the following reso-
lution :
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the President-
General to bring the matter to the attention of the Congress of the United
States in such a way as, if possible, to induce our Government to undertake
the publication and distribution of these lists which our compatriots, Consul
Merou and Ambassador Porter, aided by the French Government, have been
to such labor in preparing.
Motion seconded and carried.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER-GENERAL, read by
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley.
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Mr. President and gentlemen of the Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution : The Treasurer-General, in presenting his
annual report, desires to record his appreciation of the promptness
with which the treasurers of the several State societies have met
the obligations due the National Society. The Treasurer-General
also takes great pleasure in calling the attention of the Congress to
the liberality of the Hon. Howard De Haven Ross, former Vice-
President of the National Society and Chairman of the National
Committee on Publication, who has forwarded to him receipted
bills amounting to $201.31, the amount of same having been con-
tributed by Mr. Ross for the purpose of illustrating the National
Register.
NATIONAL SOCIETY, SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Cornelius Amory Pugsley, Treasurer-General.
Mr. President and gentlemen of the Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Treasurer-General has the honor of submitting the following
report of receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year ending April 30,
1902.
May 8— AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO $234.75
Diplomas, Bill of. 1900.
May 8— A. HOWARD CLARK 62.88
Registrar-General's Office.
Expenses for March, 1901.
May 8— GEN. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE 18.88
President-General's Office,
Expenses.
May 8— BOND BROTHERS & CO 63.35
Stationery, Printing, etc.
May 8— T. S. PECK 5.50
Expressage, Postage, etc.
May 8— S. E. GROSS 66.93
Expenses Office of Secretary-General.
May 15— S. E. GROSS 27.72
Expenses Office of Secretary-General.
May 15— BOND BROTHERS & CO 104.60
Printing, etc.
May 15— A. HOWARD CLARK 94.00
Registrar-General's Office, 1901.
Expenses for April, 1901.
June 8— THOS. ROWBOTTOM 100.00
Stenographic Services and Expenses at
Annual Congress, Pittsburgh.
June 15— A. HOWARD CLARK 64.50
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for May, 1901.
Aug. 12— J. C. WINSHIP CO 403.50
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Printing Year Book.
Aug. 12.— SPIRIT OF '76 PUB. CO 125.00
Printing and Distributing Minutes of the
Annual Congress, first quarter payment.
Aug. 19— A. HOWARD CLARK 65.00
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for July, 1901.
Aug. 19— S. E. GROSS 40.54
Secretary-General's Office,
Expenses to July 29, 1901.
Aug. 19— T. RINGER & HERTZBERG 31.75
Binding 23 Vols. "S. A. R."
Aug. 19— BOND BROTHERS & CO 79.45
Printing, etc.
Sept. 12— A. HOWARD CLARK 52.00
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for August, 1901.
Oct. 22— A. HOWARD CLARK 77.35
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for September, 1901.
Oct. 22— L. H. CORNISH 17.93
Expenses as Delegate to President McKin-
ley's funeral, Washington, D. C.
Oct. 22— WOODWARD & LOTHROP 24.20
Ribbon for Badges.
Oct. 22— BOND BROTHERS & CO 6.00
Printing, etc.
Oct. 30— BOND BROTHERS & CO 3.25
Printing, etc.
Nov. 13— COL. MOULTON HOUK 10.00
Printing, etc.
Nov. 16— BOND BROTHERS & CO 8.00
Printing, etc.
Dec. 5— S. E. GROSS 51.70
Secretary-General's Office,
Expenses.
Dec. 5— BOND BROTHERS & CO 12.85
Printing, etc.
Dec. 30— SPIRIT OF '76 PUB. CO 125.00
Second quarter payment.
1902.
Jan. 2— A. HOWARD CLARK 63.00
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for October, 1901.
Tan. 2— A. HOWARD CLARK 66.00
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for November, 1901.
Jan. 11— A. HOWARD CLARK 71.00
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Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for December, 1901.
Jan. 11— BOND BROTHERS & CO 28.75
Printing, etc.
Feb. 11— A. HOWARD CLARK 65.00
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for January, 1902.
Mar. 8— SPIRIT OF '76 PUB. CO 125.00
Third quarter payment.
Mar. 8— A. HOWARD CLARK 70.00
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for February, 1902.
Mar. 15— COL. MOULTON HOUK 7.50
Postage, etc.
Apr. 21— S. E. GROSS 52.04
Secretary-General's Office,
Expenses to April 1, 1902.
Apr. 21— A. HOWARD CLARK 58.50
Registrar-General's Office,
Expenses for March, 1902.
Total $2,655.42
CONTRIBUTION LAFAYETTE MEMORIAL FUND, APRIL 30, 1902.
1899.
Mar. 17 — Maryland Society $20.50
Apr. 20 — Pennsylvania Society 9.00
July 17 — Wisconsin Society 4.00
Sept. 23— Connecticut Society 650.50
Oct. 25— Illinois Society 35.00
1900.
Apr. 18 — New Jersey Society 105.00
1901.
Apr. 11 — Arkansas Society 5.00
Total $829.00
1901.
Apr. 11 — Amount returned to Connecticut Society $650.50
Oct. 5. — Amount returned to Illinois Society 35.00
— — — 685.50
Balance $143.50
Cash balance— May 1, 1901 $2,794.30
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RECEIPTS.
Annual Dues :
1900 $8.00
1901 17.75
1902 2,362.25
$2,388.00
Certificates 490.00
Application Blanks 17.00
Insignia (Delaware Society) .35
Extra Copies of Year Book (Pennsylvania Society) . . . 50.00
Arkansas Society (sent to former Treasurer Haskins) . . .25
Interest on Permanent P'und and Lafayette Fund 49.65
TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR YEAR $2,995.85
DISBURSEMENTS.
Stationery and Printing $329.25
Expenses Office Registrar-General 881.23
Expenses Office Secretary-General 238.93
Expenses Office President-General 18.88
Printing and Binding Year Books 403.50
Printing and Distributing Minutes, 12th Ann.
Congress 375.00
Stenographer's Report Annual Congress,
Pittsburgh 100.00
Ribbon for Badges 24.20
23 Vols. "Sons of the Amer. Rev." 31.75
Expenses of Delegate to arrange for delega-
tion at funeral of President McKinley 17.93
Amer. Bank Note Co. (Bill, 1900) 234.75
$2,655.42
Lafayette Fund returned to Illinois Society. . . 35.00
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS YEAR $2,690.21
Balance Cash on hand, April 30, 1902 3,099.73
$5,790.15 $5,790.15
Deposited in banks as follows, viz. :
Westchester County Nat'l Bank, Peekskill, N. Y $2,406.58
East River Savings Institution 185.61
East River Savings Permanent Fund 507.54
$3,099.73
CORNELIUS AMORY PUGSLEY,
New York, April 30, 3902. Treasurer-General.
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DETAILS OF RECEIPTS BY STATES
FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1902.
State.
Annual
1901.
Dues.
1902.
Certifi-
cates.
Blanks,
etc. Total.
Arizona , . ...
Arkansas $8.50
California
Connecticut
Colorado
District of Columbia
Delaware
Empire State
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas 9.25
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin ...
$7.75 $1.00
86.50
243.00
27.00
117.50
320.00
8.50
15.00
122.00
40.00
25.00
20.25
88.75
45.00
331.25
91.00
75.00
25.00
6.25
23.00
100.25
73.75
103.00
30.25
88.25
64.00
8.75
7.50
63.25
15.75
32.75
57.00
50.00
5.00
2.00
21.00
56.00
1.00
2.00
27.00
5.00
11.00
1.00
3.00
5.00
20.00
5.00
43.00
17.00
2.00
5.00
2.00
10.00
1.00
4.00
3.00
130.00
23.00
5.00
7.00
15.00
8.00
$1.50
1.75
3.50
2.35
1.00
2.00
2.00
.75
.75
1.00
1.00
$8.75
8.50
86.50
293.00
33.50
121.25
21.00
379.50
9.50
17.00
151.35
5.00
51.00
26.00
23.25
5.00
109.75
50.00
376.25
110.00
77.00
30.75
9.00
33.00
101.25
77.75
106.00
30.25
219.25
88.00
5.00
25.00
7.50
78.25
23.75
32.75
57.00
Totals $17.75 $2,362.25 $490.00 $17.60 $2,887.60
Arkansas Society, Annual Dues, 1900
Pennsylvania Society, Extra Copies of Year Book
From former Treasurer-General Haskins (Arkansas Society)
Delaware Society (Insignia) .
$8.00
50.00
25
.35
$2,946.20
49.65
Interest on Permanent and Lafayette Funds
Total .$2,995.85
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Hon. Walter S. Logan. President-General.
National Society, Sons of the American Revolution.
Dear Sir :■ — We, the undersigned, having made an examination, at your re-
quest, of the books and accounts of Cornelius Amory Pugsley, Treasurer-
General of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution, for the
period from May 1, 1901, to April 30, 1902, hereby certify that the accom-
panying statement of cash receipts and disbursements and the details of re-
ceipts by States and disbursements by items are correct ; that regularly
approved vouchers are on file for all expenditures, and that the balance of
cash on hand, viz., $3,099.73, agrees' with the balances as shown by the bank
books of the Westchester County National Bank, Peekskill, N. Y., $2,406.58,
and the East River Savings Institution, $185.61 and $507.54.
J. M. Shipley,
Treasurer, Peekskill Savings Bank,
Robert S. Allen,
Cashier, Peekskill Savings Bwnk,
G. A. Ferguson,
Cashier, Westchester Co. Nat'l Bank,
Peekskill, N. Y.
On motion, duly seconded, the report of the Treasurer-General
was ordered placed on file and printed.
President-General Logan : Before we adjourn I want to in-
troduce you to the other Logan, Colonel Logan, of Pittsburg, who
did so much to make our last Congress a success.
Colonel Logan (Pittsburg) : I will not interfere with the pro-
gramme of the day, and in view of the short time there is before
the adjournment of this session, I will simply say that I am very
glad to be here with you and to see so many gentlemen present who
were with us in Pittsburg last year. (Applause.)
Adjourned to Thursday morning, May I, at io o'clock.
THURSDAY MORNING SESSION.
Meeting called to order at io o'clock.
Chaplain-General Warfield (prayer) : We thank Thee, our Heavenly
Father, Thou God of light, that Thou hast caused Thy light to shine upon
the earth, and that Thou hast brought the beauty of the morning to cheer
and gladden our hearts. We pray Thee that Thou mayest send forth into
our hearts Thy love, which Thou hast sent abroad into all the world ; and we
have met here this day, may the spirit of brotherhood, may the spirit of
service which animated our ancestors, be present in all our meetings.
We thank Thee that we are permitted here to meet together, and we pray
Thee that as we meet it may be in a deep sense of the obligation that rests
upon us as the representatives of the great spirit of liberty and truth. May
we be blessed of Thee in all our meetings together, for Christ's sake. Amen.
Mr. Warren (New York) : We have missed from our gatherings here
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at this Congress our compatriot, General E. S. Greeley, Vice-President of
the Connecticut Society. I know he is here with us in spirit, but he is
attending to a greater duty than attending this Congress ; he is watching at
the bedside of his sick wife. Therefore, I move that the Secretary-General
transmit the following telegram, and that it be spread upon the minutes of
this Congress :
Washington, D. C, May 1, 1902.
General E. S. Greeley, New Haven, Conn.
Dear Sir : — We deeply regret that you are unable to meet with this Con-
gress. Your compatriots all send cordial regards and best wishes. Fur-
thermore, they extend their sympathy, praying for the speedy recovery of
Mrs. Greeley. Samuel Eberly Gross,
Secretary-General, Sons of the American Revolution.
Mr. Chandler : I desire to second the motion, and am happy to
say to the members of this Congress that Mrs. Greeley's condition
is now improving.
Motion carried.
Colonel Griffith : While you are on that business, I move
that a committee of three be appointed to draft and engross and
send to the widow of Lieutenant-Commander Cresap, of the
United States Navy, who died during the past year, suitable reso-
lutions. Compatriot Cresap was the first Secretary-General of
this organization, and continued so for years. I move that the
Chair appoint a committee to take charge of the matter.
Registrar-General Clark : As the Second Secretary-General
of this Society, I would like to second that motion.
Motion carried.
President-General Logan : I will appoint Colonel Griffith,
Mr. Warren and Mr. Bunker on that committee.
Mr. Bunker (Cal.) : I have a preamble to offer.
Mr. President and Fellow-Compatriots : We Californians, we modest
Californians, ask your kind attention. We want nothing for ourselves. We
have no Revolutionary sites, no histdric spots, no noble monuments, no hal-
lowed battlefields, no mountains, meadows or valleys where the buds of free-
dom first burst into beautiful bloom. Our inspiration flows from the foun-
tain of patriotism raised by our forefathers far from our golden land. Reach-
ing sublime heights and given supreme power, this fountain sprays our lofti-
est peaks, our lowliest valleys, our fertile plains and even the distant islands
of the Pacific ; ever freshening liberty, ever nourishing progress, ever stimu-
lating robust Americanism ; rich in every result and rivalling the rainbow in
the variety and splendor of its hues.
From that fountain, sir and compatriots, we draw our inspiration ; from
that inspiration came our own, the first State Society of this order, and from
that inspiration we speak to-day. We have no local signs of '76, no rem-
nants of Colonial days, no halls and homes of song and story. And yet our
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patriotism is pure as the gold from our placers, and strong and enduring as
our mighty mountains. Favored by Nature beyond our deserts, stirred by
the beauty and grandeur of our scenery, lifted to a lofty plane, our patriot-
ism equals your own, and our aspirations are equally praiseworthy.
And this is why we ask you to take a new step. This is why we ask you
to safeguard the symbols of our banner in a distant country. This is why
we come three thousand miles to speak for a monument nearly seven thou-
sand miles from the Golden Gate. We do not speak for a church. We speak
for a sentiment, a glorious God-given sentiment, the tangible, fibrous senti-
ment of freedom.
The amount we ask is trifling. We could give it ourselves and never miss
it from our fund. But the honor of giving is priceless. We would share
that honor with you. We want every Son of the American Revolution to
act his part in a new departure.
Let me talk of church and monument. The old and disused church called
Holy Trinity of the Minories blocks a blind street in eastern London. On
its north wall is the Stars and Stripes monument. Hence its claim on us.
Measured by sentiment the monument is ours, for it marks the burial place
of a Washington and bears the emblems of our flag. Thanks to the church
authorities, we may use that monument as a silent monitor. Thanks to
the church authorities, that little church in a sombre business setting shall
shine by day and night in the glory of its past, present and future, through
centuries to come, and the American wandering afar shall in the presence of
those stars and stripes recall his native land and the principles of liberty.
In the presence of that monument he can never be a man without a country.
As he gazes on the time-stained marble he must, he shall, rise to the spirit
of the occasion. There is an irresistible suggestion in these stars and stripes.
I had almost said that even the rector of the parish feels more than proper
pride in the monument. He is as anxious as any American for its preserva-
tion and the most enthusiastic of cicerones. Though the building is loved as
a link in English history, its greatest value, even in foreign estimation, is in
the Stars and Stripes monument. The narrow and quaintly carved pews,
the ancient vaults and fine and rare plate, the musty air, and all the relics
of a strenuous past, are as nothing when one stands with bared head before
that simple slab on the northern wall and marks those mute heralds of our
own approaching freedom.
Since the thirteenth century the site has been sacred to the cause of reli-
gion. Here stood the Abbey of St. Clare. In the vault below the church,
two hundred years after his death on Tower Hill, was found the mummified
head of the Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey. But let us on to
the monument. The student may easily fill the historical gap. The church
is severely plain. The building is only sixty-three feet long and twenty-four
feet wide. The distance from the paved floor to the scanty skylight is thirty
feet. The north wall is built of flint and mortar, and though dating back to
1563 shows no signs of decay. As if for a providential purpose it has bravely
defied time. The builders built better than they knew. On the inner side
of that wall, a few feet from the pulpit, is our monument, our Stars and
Stripes monument, the monument in which the church authorities, with the
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rector in the lead, kindly, aye generously, admit we have a consuming interest.
The monument is a marble slab about three feet by six ; it is in memory of
Elizabeth, niece of Lawrence Washington, the latter a direct ancestor of our
own immortal George. On a shield surmounting the marble are the Wash-
ington arms : the eagle and the stars and stripes. There is the genesis of the
American flag. From the five-pointed stars and the broad red stripes came
our starry banner.
What memories that monument recalls ! Look through the avenues of time
and see what you will. The horizon is boundless. The crest stood high in
1530, in the days of Henry VIII., but the proudest of those who then bore it
had no thought of its final mission. How strange that these emblems of
class distinction should have been fitted to republican use ! The deeds these
emblems have since inspired — courage, self-sacrifice and martyrdom — the
human mind can scarcely compass, and no man can do them justice. Our
stars marked a new constellation that has grown brighter with the passing
years. That constellation stood, as it always shall stand, for the highest
form of human progress ; not for lust or rule, not for mere material pros-
perity, but for the moral and intellectual improvement of the world. What
avails our wealth unless wisely used? A popular impression is as potent as
a fact ; a sentiment is stronger than a law. Admit for the sake of argument
that we are borne on by sentiment. Then what? Is it not a noble and
exalted sentiment?
We Sons of the American Revolution, sons of men who staked life, fame
and fortune on the last cast, men who fought, bled and died that liberty
might live, we who would brighten the world's horizon with patriotic fires,
we, I say, in Congress assembled, the very phrase echoing words of the patri-
otic past, may felicitate ourselves, the nation and the world that to-day,
through the kindly and thoughtful courtesy of an English rector, we may in
the very shadow of the shaft to his honor pay one more tribute to the father
of his country and the benefactor of mankind. (Applause.)
Motion introduced by Mr. Bunker : Whereas, The Stars and Stripes
monument in the church known as Holy Trinity of the Minories, London,
England, bears the Washington arms — the eagle and the stars and stripes —
and the five-pointed stars and red stripes are presumed to have suggested the
design for the American flag ; and
Whereas, This monument marks the burial place of Elizabeth Wash-
ington, of the family from which George Washington directly descended ; and
Whereas, The maintenance of this monument is of deep interest to the
Sons of the American Revolution and it should be most carefully safe-
guarded ; and
Whereas, Reverend James F. Marr, rector of the parish, has written that
an annual expenditure of $250 is necessary for the maintenance of the monu-
ment and the accommodation of American visitors to the church, and has also
announced that the co-operation of the Sons will be gladly accepted ; there-
fore be it
Resolved, That the President be and hereby is requested to appoint a
committee of three on the Stars and Stripes monument, with full power to
act, whose duty it shall be to inquire into the conditions of church and
monument, and who shall, if the inquiry prove satisfactory, arrange for
subscriptions from the State societies to the aggregate amount of $250, with
the understanding that the money will be forwarded to Reverend J. F. Marr,
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or the church authorities, for use in the maintenance of the monument and
the accommodation of American visitors to the church.
General Appleton : I take great pleasure in seconding this
motion, that it be referred to the committee for consideration.
Motion carried.
Mr. Richardson (Cleveland) : The duty has been delegated
to me by my colleagues of the Ohio Society to make an announce-
ment and to offer a motion at this time. It has seemed fitting that
the delegation from the State where he was born, and in whose
service he spent his life, and where his ashes lie, should announce
to this Congress that since our last meeting together our most
loved and distinguished and honored compatriot, William Mc-
Kinley, has passed from earth ; and inasmuch as Ohio gave this
compatriot to the country, and his deeds and his life and his great
public service is the priceless heritage of all compatriots in all
States, I make the following motion :
Resolved: That a committee be here appointed by the President-General,
consisting of one compatriot from each State Society entitled to representa-
tion in this Congress, the Societies of Hawaii, the Orient and France, whose
duty it shall be to prepare and engross a suitable memorial and present the
same to the family of our late compatriot, William McKinley, and to furnish
a copy for publication in the records of this National Society.
Judge Whitehead : At a meeting of the Executive Committee
a committee was appointed for the purpose of drafting resolutions,
of which you did me the honor to appoint me chairman. I have in
my pocket the resolutions that I have prepared for the purpose of
meeting my duty in that respect, and which at the proper time I
intended to bring before this convention; but as my feeble effort
would not perhaps meet with the approbation of my friend from
Ohio, I will second the inotion of the resolution now before you.
Mr Richardson : We should be glad to have Judge White-
nead appointed on that Committee.
President-General Logan : If I am President long enough,
Judge Whitehead shall be on that Committee.
General Joseph Breckinridge : I will not intrude on the time
of the Congress ; but I had the opportunity to share in the religious
ceremonies in the Far East on the occasion of the obsequies of our
compatriot, and cannot let this opportunity pass without express-
ing the feeling, not only that the loss of this compatriot is one in
which all the nations of the earth sympathize with us, but that all
good order was arrayed against those whom our children are to
contend with, when the lines of cleavage which are now growing
will certainly come to a collision of arms. Those in the East
shared with with us in every respect the admiration for this great
man, and I fancy that very few resolutions have ever been pre-
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sentecl to this Society of more solemn moment than the present.
I therefore request that the motion be accepted as of unusual
moment, and that we accept it unanimously by a rising vote.
Motion carried.
A Delegate : I desire to have the resolution amended by the
addition of the name of the delegate from France.
President-General Logan : The French Society is one of the
constituent societies, and there will be someone selected from
France. I think there is only one man who will be likely to be
selected.
Report of the Registrar-General, read by Mr. A. Howard
Clark.
Compatriots : — Since the Pittsburg Congress of 1901, your Registrar-
General has had the busiest year of the ten terms that he has had the honor
to fill this office. Eight hundred and thirty-seven application papers have
been approved and registered and 730 certificates of membership have been
engrossed. The present number of active members enrolled in thirty-nine
societies is 10,351, as follows. Massachusetts stands first, with 1,424 mem-
bers, followed by New York, 1,295 : Connecticut, 977 ; Illinois, 488, and
next the District of Columbia, 477.
Arizona 28
Arkansas 37
California 350
Colorado 114
Connecticut 977
Delaware 75
District of Columbia. . . .
Florida
. . . . 477
33
23
62
488
192
163
Kansas
148
Kentucky
73
Louisiana
44
Maine
361
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan ,
... 180
... 1,424
367
Minnesota
... 404
Missouri 127
Montana 25
Nebraska 81
New Hampshire 295
New Jersey 420
New York 1,295
Ohio 418
Oregon 122
Pennsylvania 356
Rhode Island 256
South Dakota 24
Tennessee 106
Texas 41
Utah 55
Vermont 282
Virginia 63
Washington 137
'Wisconsin 228
10,351
A provisional organization has been formed in the Philippines called the
Society in the Orient of the Sons of the American Revolution ; but the great
distance of applicants from home records causes some delay in proving the
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claims of the thirty persons declaring their eligibility. There is also a pre-
liminary Society in North Dakota and one now organizing in Oklahoma.
The roll of members deceased since the Society was organized aggregates
more than a thousand ; two hundred of them being in Massachusetts, a hun-
dred and fifty in Connecticut, and nearly a hundred in the District of Co-
lumbia. The necrology roll since the last Congress includes our honored
compatriot, William McKinley, who became a member of the Ohio Society
while Governor of that State, and who always manifested a deep interest in
this patriotic work. Another honored member has recently deceased, Rev.
T. DeWitt Talmage, who had joined the Society only a few weeks before his
death, and whose eloquence we hoped would rouse many to patriotic deeds.
There will soon be dedicated in this city a statue of Rochambeau, whose
active aid did much to make the War of the American Revolution a suc-
cess. Eminent Americans and Frenchmen will participate in the dedica-
tion, and it is certain, as Compatriots Henry Cabot Lodge and Horace Porter
on that occasion extoll the deeds of Rochambeau, Lafayette and of other
Frenchmen in the American cause, that the fraternal spirit between America
and France will be quickened and general interest aroused in our Society in
France, with Ambassador Porter as its President, and with its Vice-President
a great-grandson of the beloved and valiant Lafayette.
By resolution at the Detroit Congress in 1899, medals of honor and diplo-
mas were ordered to be presented to members who, inheriting the spirit of
their forefathers of 1776, had rendered service in the regular or volunteer
army or navy of the United States during the war with Spain. The New
York Congress in 1900 voted to confer these medals also upon new mem-
bers who may be entitled to them. During the first year 436 medals were
awarded, members were thus honored, including the hero of Manila Bay, the
next year 109, and since the Congress of 1901 there have been awarded 29
medals, making a total of 574.
The full list to April, 1901, was published in the last National Year Book,
the twenty-nine new medallists being as follows :
Delaware Society.
Clarence M. Dillon, First Lieutenant First Delaware Infantry, U. S.
Volunteers.
W. DeWolf Dimmock, Ensign U. S. Navy.
James Austin Ellison, First Sergeant First Delaware Infantry, U. S.
Volunteers.
Lewis Ellison, Second Lieutenant First Delaware Infantry, U. S.
Volunteers.
Harry Linden Roop, Sergeant First Delaware Infantry, U. S. Volunteers.
John Drayton Wainwright, Naval Cadet in Converted Yacht "Free
Lance."
District of Columbia Society.
Frank Foster Greenawalt, private First District of Columbia Volunteer
Infantry.
Johnson Van Dyke Middleton, Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. Army. Chief Sur-
geon Department of California.
Langdon Moore, Naval Cadet U. S. Navy, Ship Columbia.
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Kentucky Society.
George Trotter Tyler, M.D., Hospital Steward Fourth Kentucky Volunteer
Infantry.
Massachusetts Society.
Irving Jackson Davis, private First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
Frank V. Thompson, Sergeant First New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.
New Hampshike Society.
Herbert Chase Grime, Sergeant First New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry,
acting Commissary Sergeant First Army Corps.
Lewis Edward Tuttle, Second Lieutenant First New Hampshire Volunteer
Infantry.
Ohio Society.
Ira I. Morrison, First Lieutenant First Territorial U. S. Volunteer In-
fantry (Oklahoma).
Frank Toland Stewart, Captain Battery H, Ohio Light Artillery.
Oregon Society.
Charles Albert Coolidge, First Lieutenant and Adjutant Second U. S.
Volunteer Engineers.
Pennsylvania Society.
Charles N. Gill, private Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Willis James Hulings, Colonel Sixteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,
Brigadier-General U. S. Volunteers.
John M. McMaster, Sergeant Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer In-
fantry.
Edward E. Robbins, Major, Quartermaster U. S. Volunteers, First Army
Corps.
Tennessee Society.
John H. Curry, Jr., Quartermaster, Sergeant First Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry.
Kirby Fitzpatrick, private First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry.
Hu Blakemore Myers, Captain First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Cap-
tain Thirty-seventh U. S. Volunteer Infantry.
Samuel Strong Nicklin, First Lieutenant Third Tennessee Volunteer In-
fantry.
Marshall Tate Polk, private Fourth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry.
Samuel Van Leer, Captain First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry.
Charles C. Van Leer, Captain First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry.
Wisconsin Society.
Horace Martin Seaman, Colonel Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.
One of the objects of this Society is the preservation from possible loss or
destruction of the manuscript rolls of soldiers and other records of the
American Revolution. Ten years ago but few of these rolls were printed,
and in several States the archives were inaccessible. Compatriot Proctor,
Senator from Vermont, a few years ago secured the enactment of a law
under which such muster rolls as the Government possesses have been ar-
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ranged and fully indexed, and it is hoped that under this same law, or by
additional legislation, the mass of data filed in Revolutionary claims in the
Pension Bureau may become more accessible for public reference. The
question of printing the rolls has been discussed by the Senate Committee
on Military Affairs, but the publication is delayed by the expectation of se-
curing further records believed to exist.
The State of New York has just issued a supplementary quarto volume
full of most interesting data in regard to civil and military affairs of the
Revolution, including lists of prisoners, of State pensioners, of recipients of
bounty lands, and valuable commissary and equipment statistics.
Connecticut has printed a volume of names of several thousand soldiers
not recorded in the work published by the Adjutant-General some years
ago ; and each year, as new data is discovered, Pennsylvania adds to its pub-
lished series of Revolutionary archives.
The Daughters of the American Revolution have done a good work in
compiling the rolls of the soldiers of Georgia, and the list was recently made
public in their Third Report to the Congress of the United States.
Massachusetts has added two volumes to its monumental work on "The
Soldiers and Sailors of Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War," making
nine volumes thus far completed and carrying the roll through the letter "L."
The Society in France of Sons of the American Revolution has achieved a
most valuable work in securing from the Government archives of France
a roll of the twelve to fifteen thousand Frenchmen who participated in the
War of the American Revolution.
There is still sad lack of accessible records of the soldiers of Rhode Island,
Vermont, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and it
is hoped that the Governments of those States may soon be aroused to put
in permanent form the rolls of their Revolutionary patriots.
It would be interesting to know the number of soldiers in the War of the
Revolution, but the data available is hardly enough to give an approximate
aggregate, though it may be roughly estimated that 300,000 men, or one-tentli
of the population of the colonies, were active participants in the war. Mas-
sachusetts records show some 90,000 enlistments by probably 60.000 men;
New York had some 45,000 soldiers, and other colonies in proportion.
The National Register of this Society now being issued is surely a monu-
mental work in genealogy, containing as it does the names of parents, grand-
parents and great-grandparents of about 11,300 members, through each gen-
eration back to ancestors who aided in the establishment of the United States
of America, these ancestors including thirty-three of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. The preparation of printer's copy for this
work was certainly a gigantic task, and nothing but the strongest interest
in the Society could have induced your Registrar-General to undertake its
supervision, spending hundreds and. hundreds of hours in revision of copy
and proof. The book is a mine of valuable historical and genealogical in-
formation, and will no doubt be delved into by thousands eagerly searching
out their ancestry.
As a matter of genealogical importance in which this Society must be
vitally interested, the following resolutions are presented, which it is hoped
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may be acted upon at once, as the question is to-day before the Senate of
the United States :
Whereas : In the bill for an act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the Government, which is now on its passage in the Senate, a
provision has been incorporated looking to the destruction of the whole or
a part of the census schedules, which contain the names of the inhabitants
of this country at each decennial period since the year 1790 ; and
Whereas : There is danger that these records of inestimable value may be
destroyed, for want of appreciation of their importance, unless expression
is given to public opinion upon the subject by parties interested in their
preservation ; and
Whereas : The Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, whose
fundamental principle is reverence for the patriotic deeds of our sires and
pride in their achievements, is the only body now in session which can enter
a timely and, it is to be hoped, an effective protest against this proposed
legislation ; therefore
Resolved: That we place upon record our sense of the inexpediency and
impolicy of any disposition of the records in question other than their per-
manent preservation at the national capital, either in the permanent census
office or elsewhere. They are a treasure-house of original information as to
identity of individuals and families, from the point of view of the genealo-
gist, and not infrequently an aid to the judicial settlement of controversies
as to property rights by inheritance. They shed light which can be procured
from no other source upon the social, political and economic relations of the
people of the United States during the past hundred years. Their value to
the antiquarian and to students of history will continually increase in pro-
portion to their age. The people have paid many millions of dollars for
them, and if destroyed they cannot be replaced, if scattered they can never
be reassembled. ' Science and sentiment unite in the demand that this con-
templated outrage on both shall not be consummated, and in their name we
appeal to the patriotism of Congress to prevent its consummation.
Resolved: That a copy of this action by this Society be furnished to the
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Allison, of
Iowa, with a respectful request that he will call the attention of his col-
leagues in the Senate to our views and this expression of them.
In 1892 your present Registrar-General served the Society as Secretary-
General and performed the duties also of Registrar-General, and in 1893 he
was elected to the latter office. To-day, in closing the first decade of his ad-
ministration, he thanks the officers of the State societies for their uniform
courtesy and aid to him in keeping the records of the Society up to the high-
est standard.
Respectfully submitted,
A. "Howard Clark,
Smithsonian Institution, Registrar-General.
Washington, D. C, April 30, 1902.
On motion, duly seconded and carried, the Report of the Registrar-Gen-
eral was approved and ordered printed.
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Mr. Underwood (Wisconsin) : I would ask to have the name
of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Census added to the
Committee.
President-General Logan : We will do so.
Report of the Historian-General, read by Mr. Bates.
The Council of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest and
Natural Beauty is the only organization in this country that stands for the
safeguarding of the historical associations of the English-peaking people as
a whole and amenities of life that are constantly threatened by modern
commercialism. This work, so far as it pertains to places of historic in-
terest connected with the American Revolution, is secured through the Sons
and Daughters of the American Revolution and stands for history. It is
true that there is a certain narrowness in the historic point of view, wliich is
often the means of our frittering away our energies in doing comparatively
trifling things, but to these patriotic societies is due for the most part that
practical demonstration of history which has been said to be so valuable in
municipal aesthetics. The placing of a tablet in itself is of little conse-
quence as a factor in the education of the people, unless it is so related
to other events as to "visualize the past" and thus be of service not only
to the scholar but of great influence in the education of the democracy.
This council is designed to unite all organizations in different States de-
voted to such purposes as a means of education for the public. Concord
was the first town in America to form a local organization to preserve
objects of historic interest. The saving of the house of Carlyle in Chelsea,
and its associations with Ralph Waldo Emerson, doubtless had much to do
with this. Germantown is only second to Concord in preserving its many
historic sites. The saving of the Van Cortlandt mansion by the Colonial
Dames is an instance of the work being done in this direction. In Frank-
furt there is the Goethe house ; in Florence, the house of Michael Angelo,
the sculptor ; in Edinburgh, that of John Knox, the reformer ; which are all
preserved and maintained as historical repositories of everything pertaining
to the lives and works of these great men. On this line is the movement in
New York to secure the Jumel mansion and grounds at Washington Heights
as a suitable place for the establishment of an historic park, "for the pres-
ervation of Washington's headquarters, which occupy the site, and for hous-
ing of relics of the Revolution and of the early history of the country. The
fundamental principle of the National Trust is to safeguard for the com-
munity these objects in the direction of history and the records of the past ;
and in this congeries of races wliich exists to so large an extent in America
we are only working out on a larger scale the same problems that have been
already solved in the old world ; and thus shall be accomplished the great
task of teaching history, not by books only, but as it relates to the condi-
tions of life and character in the past, and so bring its influence to bear
upon the problems of modern democracy as a means of elevation to the
people. In this respect the patriotic societies have a great mission to per-
form. They have already done much in this respect. The preservation of
certain historic sites in New York and elsewhere is worthy of the highest
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commendation ; but this work is only partially begun, and it cannot be car-
ried out to its fullest extent except as this Society, with all the patriotic
organizations, act in conjunction with the Council of the National Trust,
which is engaged not only in the work of preserving historic sites, but also
places of great natural beauty, such as is now done by the American Scenic
and Historic Preservation Society of New York City. The field of their
operations is necessarily limited, but there is no reason in teaching history
as though all history prior to 1776 is foreign history ; but this is all due to
the narrow method of teaching history in the American schools. Properly con-
sidered, there is no reason why the memory of men like St. Augustine, Wil-
liam of Wickham, King Alfred, Henry the Fifth, William of Orange, Chau-
cer, Ormond the Brave, or the associations connected with Runnymede,
should not be as sacred a trust to us as to Englishmen, and the time may
come when they will be quite as much American as English. This may be
considered a new and novel role to pursue ; but the impetus thus set on foot
is certainly in this direction, and it is only a question of time when, as a
matter of education, these desired ends will be attained.
Up to the present no systematic effort has been made by the National
Society to have the exercises of the marking of places of historic interest
collected together and made a permanent and accessible fund of historical in-
formation in the possession of the Historian-General of this Society. The
Year Books to a certain extent contain this information, but it is practic-
ally inaccessible to the members at large. For this purpose Mr. Theodore S.
Peck, former Historian-General, decided to take the initiative and started
an inquiry with the view of securing by means of an official circular ad-
dressed to the different societies, information as to all points of interest per-
taining to the Revolution in their several States, and copies of all news-
papers or other articles of Revolutionary interest which may appear from
time to time in their States. This was an important move in the right direc-
tion to secure such historical matter, but only Arizona, Maine and Virginia
responded to his inquiry. Acting on his suggestion, I sent out a revised
letter asking for less information but in a more condensed form, with special
reference to the monuments and tablets erected during the year, with photo-
graphs of the same. It is very gratifying to be able to report that there has
been a very generous response to this inquiry- Letters have been received
from the societies of Tennessee, Delaware, Minnesota, the Empire State So-
ciety, Maine, California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Louisiana, Kansas and
Michigan. Such information is being arranged and placed in a suitable
scrap-book, so that in time a complete personal history of the Revolution
can be compiled, as represented by the monuments and tablets, the value of
which in after years will be of the greatest importance, when the history of
the Society comes to be written.
Of the principal historical events of the past year as so reported the fol-
lowing may be mentioned :
The unveiling of the monument at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, marking
the spot where the American flag was first unfurled in battle, is of great
interest. This event occurred on the spot where this battle happened, Sep-
tember 3, 1777. The monument was unveiled on the 124th anniversary of
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Delaware's only land battle in the Revolution. It is a handsome Brandy-
wine granite stone, standing eight feet high and enclosed in a square, the
corners of which are marked by cannon and the sides by heavy anchor chains,
and the inscription is under a representation of the original flag of thirteen
bars and thirteen stars. It stands near the residence of J. Wilkins Cooch,
a descendant of the Revolutionary Cooch, whose name is now associated with
this spot.
In his address on this occasion, Mr. Henry Conrad, among other things,
said :
"When Howe and his fleet left New York, July 17, 1777, he had with him
17,000 men, proceeded southward, and after disembarking on the shores of
the Chesapeake marched toward Philadelphia. Washington, with 11,000
men, encamped near White Clay Creek and took a strong position at Iron
Hill. The British were commanded by Major-General Grant, and the Con-
tinentals by General Maxwell. Grant's duty was to preserve the line of
communication with Cornwallis and Kniphausen. It was deemed' expedient
to gain Iron Hill. A picket force was stationed at Cooch's Mill, while the
American pickets were at Christian Bridge. Maxwell met Cornwallis, and,
after a short fight, was forced to retreat over White Clay Creek. Washing-
ton, Greene and Lafayette went forward and viewed the British camp, and
slept that night in a farmhouse nearby, and the next day, as Washington
expressed it, made a lucky retreat. It was here, however, that the forces of
Howe were watched by the forces of Washington, and where the new flag
adopted by the Continental Congress was raised for the first time in battle."
The Maryland Society erected and unveiled, October 19, 1901, the great
monument to the Maryland heroes of the Revolution. It is a granite shaft
sixty feet high, surmounted by a bronze statue of the Goddess of Liberty.
It was erected to commemorate the Revolutionary services of these heroes,
commencing with the Riflemen at Cambridge, August 9, 1775, and ending
with the surrender at Yorktown, October 19, 1771, as covering the whole
story of the war. The day of its unveiling was not only the anniversary of
the Battle of Yorktown, but was also that of Peggy Stewart Day, Mary-
land's Tea Party.
It was the first great monument erected solely to commemorate the Revo-
lutionary services of the soldiers of a single State. Maryland played a con-
spicuous part in the Revolution, and her history in that respect may be said
to be the history of that great event. On the Declaration of Independence
we find the names of Chase, of Paca, of Stone and of Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton. Johnson nominated Washington for the position of commander
of the army as a member of the First Continental Congress. Smallwood,
Howard, Gist, Hall, Griffith and Watkins led the Maryland forces through
the war and fought with them at Cambridge, Long Island, Trenton, Prince-
ton, Brandywine, Monmouth, Stony Point, Savannah, Guilford Court House
and Yorktown. Such patriotism found a fitting recognition in the grand
monument thus erected.
On the same day, October 19, 1901, the Michigan Society unveiled a bronze
tablet to the memory of Major-General Anthony Wayne, placed in the front
portico of the new Wayne Court House. It bears a fac simile of the in-
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signia of the Society, a map of Wayne County, as then established, and
a portrait of General Wayne in has relief. This tablet is designated to com-
memorate one of the greatest events in American history, and is a tribute to
one of the leading fighting generals of the Revolution. It had been tried in
vain to subdue the Indians of the Northwest Territory then in open warfare
with the settlers. The British were still possessed of the leading military
posts of this vast region, in violation of the Treaty of Paris, hoping thereby
to keep this land, if the United States should prove too feeble to conquer
these savages. Great Britain had become allied with the Indians, and pro-
longed the War of the Revolution for thirteen years after it had formally
dosed in the East. The American emigrant had gone to inhabit this land,
but a reign of terror existed throughout this region, and the settlers were
fast being massacred as the victims of this barbarism. They declared that
no white man should ever inhabit the iand north and west of the Ohio
River, and that this "garden" of the country should be forever the dwelling
place of the Indian. Generals Harmar and St. Clair had met with signal
defeat in their attempts to subdue these savages. It was this time that
"Mad Anthony," the "dashing soldier of the Revolution," was made Com-
mander-in-Chief of the United States Army, and in September, 1792, he
was appointed to raise the necessary forces and lead them against these
savage foes.
General Wayne had seen extended service in the Revolution. He took
part in that great struggle at the outbreak and was in it at the close. There
was scarcely an important battle during the whole of this war in which he
was not personally engaged. With this prestige as a daring soldier, he
took up his march from Pittsburg, and for over a period of two years pro-
ceeded through the wilds of this savage country down the Ohio and north-
ward to Fallen Timbers, where on August 20, 1794, he achieved a brilliant
victory over the combined forces of the British and Indians, wiped out an
Indian warfare that had lasted for over twenty-five years, and opened the
Northwest to the settlement of the whites. He entered Detroit August 17,
1796, as military governor of the Territory, which the British had evacu-
ated on the 11th of July, and the American flag was then raised for the first
time over this region, which then became a part of the Federal Union. It
was such an event that this tablet was designed to commemorate.
On November 16, 1901, the Empire State Society unveiled a bronze tablet
on a granite monument commemorating the Revolutionary Battle of Fort
Washington in the City of New York.
It is located on the northern end of Manhattan Island, on the site regis-
tered by the American Scenic and Historical Preservation Society. There
the fort was constructed by the Continental troops in the summer of 1776,
was later taken by the British after a heroic defense, November 16, 1776,
and re-possessed by the Americans upon their triumphal entry into the City
of New York, November 25, 1793. It was erected through the generosity of
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the New York journalist. At this place three
thousand men, the flower of the American army, under the command of
General Washington, attacked by overwhelming numbers, after a brilliant de-
fense and a brave struggle, surrendered and were made prisoners of war,
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but not before five hundred Hessians had "bit the dust." Many of the
Americans who were taken prisoners were afterwards executed in the Eng-
lish prison-ships. It was the darkest day in American history, and many
despaired of their country's future. But it was not so with Washington,
who, with that determination which always characterized his conduct in
the most trying times of the Revolution, gathered up his disheartened
troops and began his famous retreat from the Hudson to the Delaware,
where victory later was to crown his efforts, and in the end he was to re-
possess this fort when he afterwards made his triumphal entry into the City
of New York.
In the battle Of Fort Washington there was a conspicuous illustration of
the close alliance between the scenic and historic elements which formed the
two-fold character of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation So-
ciety, which selected the site for this monument. "It is a remarkable and
interesting fact," says Mr. Andrew H. Green, President of that Society, "so
nearly universal as to warrant its interpretation as the expression of an
underlying principle, that the great conflicts of mankind have been identi-
fied with conspicuous features of natural scenery. Among a rugged and
virile people the physical features of the landscape which make impress on
their moral character afford the salient points from which to exercise their
genius. This is notably the truth with regard to military engagements,
and many of the great battles of history have been associated with pic-
turesque topographical features.
"The territory," continues Mr. Green, "over which the battle of Fort
Washington was fought one hundred and twenty-five years ago, some three
or four square miles in extent, comprises the most picturesque portion of
the City of New York. It is the highest, boldest and most diversified sec-
tion of our ancient city, and it commands a combined view of land and
water, of city and country, unsurpassed by any city in the United States.
It is the only portion of Manhattan Island where the shore line of the beau-
tiful American Rhine has been left in its native picturesqueness, and it is
the only portion where any trace of its pristine beauty remains undesecrated
and unrazed by the leveling marks of so-called 'public improvements.' "
It is thus apparent that this Society is fast making a record of the most
important historical events of the Revolution. Each one of these four cele-
brates an epoch in the history of this country.
That at Oooch's Bridge, the time when the Americna army had its own
distinctive flag in battle ; that of the Maryland monument, a review of the
Revolution ; that of the Wayne tablet, the final conquest and settlement of
the Northwest Territory ; that of Fort Washington, the first great defeat of
the American army in the Revolution, and its subsequent recovery, as in-
dicative of the final success and triumph of the Revolutionary cause. This
is simply in the historic sense, but in the higher signification, when the his-
torical is united with the scenic, this work applies the best elements of the
history of the race to modern citizenship, and does this not by books but
aesthetically. One of the great problems of the future is the development of
democracy in this country as elsewhere ; and it seems that these organiza-
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tions are destined to be among the chief agencies employed to solve these
questions. A tablet or a monument means little in itself, but when consid-
ered as a factor in a movement whose ultimate aim and object is the edu-
cation of the people, it then becomes of the greatest importance as a means
of improvement for the general good. Our work in this matter may be
comparatively trifling, but it contains the impetus and the motive for great
results. We celebrate the events of the Revolution as tending to create
love of country, but when identified with locations of scenic beauty, they
both tend to develop the patriotic spirit and aesthetic sense, which together
means stability to our institutions and a higher life for the people. This is
the true foundation for a democracy such as exists in this country ; to as-
sist in creating which we believe is the grand mission of this Society.
"On motion duly seconded and carried, the Report of the Historian-Gen-
eral was approved and ordered placed on file and printed.
Hon. Noble D. Larner: Mr. President-General, I wish to
state to you that the flowers now placed before you on this plat-
form have been sent to us this morning as a present to the National
Congress from the President of the United States, through Col.
Bingham.
President-General Logan : I announce as the committee ap-
pointed on Mr. Bunker's resolution, Mr. Bunker, General Apple-
ton, and A. Howard Clark.
Hon. Noble D. Larner : I have received a dispatch from our
old friend General Joseph Wheeler. (Applause.) The General
has been very sick in the City of Brooklyn. He is still sick, and
he sends me a dispatch this morning saying that my invitation to
him to be present has been received and that he regrets very much
that he cannot be here.
President-General Logan : The next regular business is the
report of the National Committee on the Revision of the Constitu-
tion, by Judge Hancock.
Judge Hancock : Under peculiar circumstances, at the Detroit
Congress in 1899, tne Constitution was amended so that the Presi-
dent and Vice-Presidents of this Society could not be elected twice
in succession. In 1900, many societies being dissatisfied with this
amendment of the Constitution, there were two other amendments
proposed. One from New Jersey, recommended by the New Jer-
sey Society, proposed a return to the old system, which allowed the
Congress to vote for candidates as often in succession as they
pleased. The second, from the District of Columbia Society, al-
lowed simply that they might be voted for a second term after
having been elected once. We have proposed — the Committee on
Revision — three amendments, which will appear here in this re-
port. In order that there might be no mistake, I ventured to place
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them before the Society of Pennsylvania, and they unanimously
recommended them to the General Congress now in session.
The report is as follows :
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
PRESENTED BY THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA SOCIETY.
"Strike out from the proviso Section I the word 'second' and
for it insert the word 'third/ so that the proviso shall read:
"Provided that the President-General and five Vice-Presidents-
General shall not be elected for a third consecutive term."
RESOLUTION OF THE CONGRESS OF 1901 AT
PITTSBURG.
Resolved, That this whole question in respect to the amendment
proposed be postponed to next year and that a committee of five
be appointed to revise the Constitution in respect to all the amend-
ments which have been here proposed.
COMMITTEE.
The following members were appointed on the Committee :
James Denton Hancock, Pennsylvania.
Hon. Edwin Warfield, Maryland.
Theodore H. Eaton, Michigan.
Hon. John Whitehead, New Jersey.
Trueman G. Avery, New York.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
Your Committee beg leave to report as follows : That they have care-
fully considered all the suggestions made concerning the proposed amend-
ment above mentioned, as well as the proviso of Section 1, Article V., of the
Constitution adopted at Detroit in 1899 as an amendment.
Under the original Constitution, the President-General and Vice-Presi-
dents-General were elected annually. It will therefore be perceived that
both the proviso and its amendment are clear limitations upon the power
of the Society to elect its own officers. However eminent and efficient a
member may be, and however desirous the membership may be to elect him,
they are prevented from so doing if he shall happen to have filled either
of these offices for the term mentioned in the proviso or the proposed amend-
ment. The committee believe also that the practical effect of the extension
of the limit of election to two, three or five years would mean through a
kind of compulsive courtesy the extension of the terms of those officers for
those periods when it might be desirable to terminate them sooner. Nor do
the committee understand that anything is gained by such limitations. The
same power which creates the limitations elects the officers, and can therefore
apply without restriction a limitation to each particular office. The fact is
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that such limitations are usually begotten from a want of courage in the
elector to exercise his suffrage in accordance with his convictions ; and it
is not to be presumed that descendants of Revolutionary heroes who risked
and lost their lives for independence have so far lost the virtues of their
ancestors as not to have sufficient independence to vote for what they con-
ceive to be the best interests of their Society.
It has been suggested that these limitations would, by rotation in office,
give to all members an opportunity to fill the higher positions. This,
however, would tend to belittle the offices. The committee cannot believe
that an argument of this kind will have much weight with the Society, nor
that so petty an ambition could have influence with a body of men who, as
descendants of the Fathers of the Republic, occupy a post of honor much
higher than that to which they can attain through the occupancy of any
office.
Even without reference to the power in the Society to put an end to offi-
cial life, there usually grows in such organizations an unwritten law which
fixes a limit to official terms of office. In our country no President has been
elected to a third term, and if we turn to the records of our own Society we
find that the first President only filled the office for one year, the second for
three years, the third for five years, the fourth for two years, and the fifth
and sixth for one year each. It is not at all likely, unless under extra-
ordinary conditions, which would meet the full approval of the whole So-
ciety, that we shall ever have a President who will fill the place for a period
longer than five years.
The committee therefore recommend that the Constitution be so altered
as to return to the original rule of the Society, and that Article V., Sec-
tion 1, be amended to read as follows :
Section 1. "The General Officers of the National Society shall be a Presi-
dent-General, five Vice-Presidents General, a Secertary-General, Treasurer-
General, Registrar-General, Historian-General, and Chaplain-General, who
shall be elected by ballot by a vote of the majority of the members present
at the annual meeting of the Congress of the National Society, and shall
hold office for one year and until their successors are elected."
Although the words of the resolution scarcely comprehend it, the Con-
gress seem to have expected a revision of the whole Constitution. The com-
mittee have found that document to be a very carefully prepared and com-
prehensive instrument, and that no changes should be made without careful
consideration. They have thought it proper, however, to suggest two slight
additions.
1. In Article II. it is mentioned as one of the objects of the Society, "to
celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war." It has
been the practice of the Society to go much farther than this, and to cele-
brate the civil as well as military anniversaries of the Revolutionary period.
We therefore suggest that this clause be amended by adding thereto the
words "and the Revolutionary period." The clause will then read, "to cele-
brate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war and of the Revo-
lutionary period."
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2. Article VIII. provides that the Constitution may be amended at any
meeting of the Congress * * * provided that sixty day's notice of the
proposed amendments, "which shall first have been recommended by a State
Society, shall be sent by the Secretary-General to the President of each
State Society."
It is to be noted that defects of the Constitution rarely come within the
purview of the State Societies which are generally controlled by their own
constitution and by-laws. On the other hand, all troubles which arise under
the Constitution are felt with peculiar force by the Congress, and the Ex-
ecutive Committee which controls the action of the Society in the long in-
terims between the annual meetings of the Congress.
The committee therefore recommend that Article VIII. be amended to
read as follows :
"This Constitution may be altered or amended at any meeting of the Con-
gress of the National Society, provided that sixty days' notice of the pro-
posed alterations or amendments, which shall first have been recommended
by a State Society, or by a prior Congress, or by the Executive Committee
of the National Society, shall be sent by the Secretary-General to the
President of each State Society. A vote of two-thirds of those present shall
be necessary to their adoption."
James Denton Hancock,
Edwin Warfield,
Tbueman G. Avery,
J. Whitehead,
Theodore H. Eaton.
Colonel Logan (Pittsburg) : I move the adoption of the re-
port. Motion seconded.
Hon. Franklin Murphy : Does that carry the adoption of the
amendment ?
Colonel Logan : Yes, and the recommendations adopted.
Hon. Franklin Murphy : Should not we accept the report
and order it printed, and then take a vote specifically on these
amendments, so that there will be no question on them ? I think
they ought to be voted on separately.
Colonel Logan : I move then that the report be received and
printed.
Colonel Griffith : I was going to rise to a point of order as
to this amendment to the Constitution. It seems to me there
should be one resolution to receive the report, which could be
passed by a majority vote; the other would require a two-thirds
vote.
President-General Logan : The point is well taken and it is
covered by the present form of the motion.
Motion carried, and report ordered to be printed.
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President-General Logan : The question now is upon the
adoption of the proposed amendment. Governor Franklin Mur-
phy proposes that the vote be taken separately.
Colonel Logan : I move the adoption of the amendment to
Article II. as read.
Motion seconded and carried.
Colonel Logan : I move the adoption of the amendment to
Article V., which covers the changing of the term of the Presi-
dent-General and the Vice-Presidents-General without limit.
Judge Hancock : Section I of Article V. now reads :
ARTICLE V. — Officers and Managers.
Section i. The General Officers of the National Society shall
be a President-General, five Vice-Presidents-General, a Secretary-
General, Treasurer-General, Registrar-General, Historian-Gen-
eral, and Chaplain-General, who shall be elected by ballot by a vote
of the majority of the members present at the annual meeting of
the Congress of the National Society, and shall hold office for one
year and until their successors are elected.
Then, in 1899, this proviso was added :
" Provided, That the President-General and five Vice-Presi-
dents-General shall not be elected for a second consecutive term."
We propose to strike out that proviso and let it stand as the
Constitution was originally adopted.
Hon. Noble D. Larner : This is a question which has agitated
the Society of the District of Columbia for many years, and I
think it was the first Society that ever introduced the question into
the National Society. We had been at that for several years and
we finally adopted our present Constitution. We think that the
side we have taken is the right side ; we hold that no man has the
right to have a perpetual office. We are all equal and we all have
the right to hold office, and we think that the rule that governs our
District of Columbia Society is the proper one and the one that
should govern this National Society. Our rule is that no one can
be elected as President of the Society more than twice. For in-
stance, I was elected last year as the President of our Society and
I have been elected a second time. I don't think we should bring
in any compatriot and say to him : "You can stay there as long as
you wish to stay there." One President of the National Society
stood there for five years, until he was sent to France as the repre-
sentative of this Government. I hope that the District of Colum-
bia rules will prevail in this National Society in that regard, and
I therefore move the following resolution: That no one shall be
elected to the office of President for more than two terms.
Mr. Harrison : What is the necessity for this amendment at
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this time ? Is there any necessity for it at all ? It seems to me as
if it would work against the smaller societies in the smaller States,
where they have not yet developed. I cannot see any necessity for
passing this amendment on this particular occasion. If, in the
future, occasion should arise, the Society can then adopt that
amendment. I agree, however, with Compatriot Larner, and en-
dorse his views.
Mr. James Smith (Michigan) : I understand that we are vot-
ing on the amendment to Section I, Article V.
President-General Logan (to Mr. Larner) : Did you move
an amendment ?
Mr. Larner : Yes, and it was seconded here.
A Delegate : Is a motion to amend an amendment to the Con-
stitution in order?
President-General Logan : The point of order is made that
an amendment to an amendment to the Constitution is out of or-
der ; I think the point of order is well taken.
Dr. E. M. Gallaudet : I am a member of the District of Co-
lumbia Society, and while I would not wish to seem to present any
views that would not be sustained by the members of that Society,
I am aware that our Society has stood for a two years' term. But
I cannot allow the present occasion to pass without expressing my
honest opinion and conviction with regard to this whole matter.
I am in thorough sympathy with the report and recommenda-
tions of the committee, and I will briefly give you my reasons. I
do not think, in the first place, that it is fitting for a Society like
this to attempt to tie its hands in regard to the matter of the elec-
tion of its most important officers ; I think the Society should be
free to do from time to time, from year to year, what the interests
of the Society seem to demand. (Applause.) If they demand a
rotation in office after one year's term, they can have it ; they have
only to vote by a majority to have another President, and they can
have it if they think it is desirable to the interests of the Society.
If any emergency arises ; if any important questions crop up ; if a
President-General pre-eminently fitted for that office has been
elected to that office, and the Society desires to retain him in office,
it would seem — pardon the word — rather childish for us to do
what we might very well leave to the Society to do. I have an-
other reason for being opposed to any limitation by the Constitu-
tion. Such limitation is simply absurd, and I will show you why.
Suppose the limit is for one year ; suppose the Constitution says
we shall not re-elect ; everyone knows that in a body like this a
man remains in office until his successor is elected, and although it
takes a two-thirds vote to change the amendments, they could sim-
ply refuse to go into an election for President by a majority vote,
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and if they wanted a man who was already in to stay in three or
four years more, they could keep him in. "I think, therefore, Mr.
President, that it is simply trivial to allow the Constitution to tie
its hands, and I think it is far better for us to support the report of
the committee, and to return to what was the original provision of
the Constitution. (Applause.)
Mr. Handy (Delaware) : I realize from the manifestations of
the compatriots present that there is a strong sentiment on the
floor in favor of the adoption of this resolution, yet I do not desire
to see the vote taken without saying a word in opposition to it.
If I may venture to attempt a reply to the clear and eloquent
utterance of the gentleman who last addressed us, I would say in
the first place that if the present Constitution is futile, if the Soci-
ety now has the power, by the ingenious method suggested by the
last speaker, to continue indefinitely in office the President-Gen-
eral, why is he so anxious to change? If he has what he wants
now, why does he want the amendment ?
Dr. Gallaudet : To wipe out the absurdity in our Constitution,
that is all.
Mr. Handy : It may be an absurdity, but I venture to say that
while it stands in the Constitution the ghost which the gentleman
sees will never rise from its grave. It is effective where it stands.
Now, what is the history ? The Congress had an unlimited term,
an unlimited number of re-elections for its President-General.
Having tried that it put an amendment to the Constitution, thus
showing that in some respects at least there must have been dis-
satisfaction with the working of the original Constitution. Those
who tried it didn't like it and they changed it. What has been the
friction since the change ? What is the grievance ? What are the
causes now, gentlemen, which make you ask for a change ? Have
we not had good Presidents-General since? Has not the Society
prospered since? We have had three of them since, and for my
part, looking back, I would rather have had the three than any one
of them three times. (Applause.) For my part, looking back,
I would not like to give up the administration of Walter Seth
Logan. (Applause.) For my part, again looking back, I would
not like to give up the administration of General Joseph Breckin-
ridge. (Applause.) And with all honor to the distinguished
compatriot from New Jersey, with a laurel wreath around his ad-
ministration for one year there could not have been another leaf
added if he had served all of three years as President-General.
What is the grievance of these gentlemen ? Why do they want a
remedy? I heard, accompanied by applause, at the opening of
this Congress, the President-General assert that this Society had
in it an inexhaustible line of gentlemen fit to serve as President of
the United States, one after the other to the end of time. (Ap-
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plause.) He mentioned a Republican President or a Democratic
President, and the only thing that astonished me was that he failed
in nominating as a candidate for the President of the Democratic
party his own modest and beaming self. (Applause.)
If we have in this Society an unlimited supply of candidates for
the office of President of the United States, one every four years,
surely we can find an unlimited supply of Presidents-General, one
every year. And if we can find a suitable man, one every year, a
man of dignity, a man of capacity, of enthusiasm, then why not let
us have them in due succession? You say it is "childish" to put
it in. It is already in, and for my part I never batter down a door
unless I want to get on the other side of it. If I find a door
locked, and I want to go around on the other side, I am ready to
batter with my knuckles to get across ; but, if I don't want to get
at the other side of the door, there is no reason for battering down
the door ; and as we have the Constitution as it is, unless you want
to elect some man permanently, unless you have reached that state
of mind where you want one man, to keep him all the time, it is
childish to talk of changing the Constitution to do something
which you do not want to do after you are able to do it.
There are no fetters and no bonds when you are doing just what
you want to do anyhow. When you want to do something that
you are not permitted to do, you are bound. I remember as a boy
hearing about the bonds of matrimony. I have been married for
fifteen years and I have not yet found the bonds too tight ; there
has never been any disposition to get away from this delightful
Society. I understand that there never could be a day when the So-
ciety would be more tempted ; there never could be a more charm-
ing time to keep the man there forever than now, with the lovely
gentleman who presides over this body at the present time. But I
understand, as dearly beloved as he may be to the Society, as
willing as the Society may be to have him all its life, I under-
stand that he is a flirtatious individual, and that he would not do it
and we might have a breach of promise case. Let us wait until
we find a man who will be willing to be our permanent spouse be-
fore we give up our position as a maternal spouse with one hus-
band and no chance of getting into the market again. (Laughter.)
Dr. Gallaudet: I have no wish to prolong this discussion.
My honorable friend from Delaware has drawn some inferences
from the position that I have expressed which I think I am not
willing to have stand. It would be inferred from what he said
that those who are supposed to sustain the committee in their re-
port on this occasion are in favor of having a President in for an
unlimited term. That by no means follows. I, myself, am per-
fectly willing, if the Society so desires, to have a new President
every year. I am a member of several organizations of different
sorts in which there is an unwritten law that the President shall
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be renewed every year. I am sure I feel very much easier in those
organizations where the law is an unwritten law ; where it is held
to-day as the proposed requirement. I said something a little
while ago about feeling that this Society should not have its hands
tied. I am by no means urging that this Society should adopt the
policy of re-electing a President for five years or ten years. I
would rather prefer a frequent change, but I do feel that the Soci-
ety should be free to re-elect a President if it pleases to do so, and
not have its hands tied.
Chaplain-General Warfield: I think the argument which
has been presented to us in such a captivating way has the highest
characteristic of the most captivating of all arguments ; that it ap-
peals to our prejudices rather than to our convictions.
It seems to me that there is one thing that this Society stands
for above all others, and that is, a certain type of manhood which
is not afraid of being misled by the temptations which are con-
stantly presented to us. We believe in free institutions, and we
largely believe in free institutions because they present to us that
liberty, not of doing what we please, but what we believe to be
right.
Mr. Handy (interrupting) : Excuse the interruption, but a
conviction is what / believe, and a prejudice is what the other fel-
low believes.
Chaplain-General Warfield (continuing) : I am willing to
admit that the gentleman has appealed to my prejudices, therefore
I confess I must be the other fellow. I want to vote in this case
for what is wise and what is right, and to have that liberty to de-
cide when any question is presented to me in its own connection
and in no other connection.
Now, gentlemen, the question that has been presented to us sev-
eral times has been that of electing a man to the office of President-
General of this Society ; and when I have come to that question I
have felt it an insult to my manhood to have it said to me, "You
have not sense or judgment enough to have this question submit-
ted to you in its simplicity." We have been told that one man shall
be eliminated from your choice. I have manhood enough, sir, to
vote against any man who is put up before us for any reason that
there may be. I believe that every other man should have an
equal right to decide that case for himself; nor do I believe, sir,
that there is any danger of men such as are collected here being
guided or influenced by any kind of cliques or anything of that
sort. I think we should come to an election of a President-Gen-
eral with hands united.
Let me go back. The matter which was presented to us in such
admirable style is that it was best for this Society to select one man
after another to fill this high office ; in all of which I agree with
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you. But, sir, permit me to say that I think that we did less harm
to those gentlemen whom we elected one after another, when we
simply and practically said to them: "Sir, we elect you to this
office; you are our second choice; we cannot elect the outgoing
gentleman ; we must elect someone else, and it must be you." We
should say to our retiring President : "We are proud of your ser-
vices, but we have another man whom we will now proceed to
honor." I think we should be free to honor a man who has served
us excellently by a second term. I should not be afraid of a third
term if it were for the best interests of the Society. I should not
be afraid of any duration of office which made itself clear to us as
for the best interests of our Society. As I look at the list of our
officers-general, I am sometimes prone to wonder why it is that on
one side we have a list of gentlemen who are not realists, and on
the other of those who are realists. Does this Society mean to
draw a line and say that the Presidents-General are purely honor-
ary officers, and we hard-working members on the other side, be-
cause the Secretary-General and Chaplain-General have such ar-
duous duties that they must be well exercised in them and there-
fore elected again and again. I would eliminate the distinction
between the "honorary" and the "laborious" classes, and recognize
that both are here for the interests of the work ; and as long as
they serve us I would return them when it seems to be the best
judgment of this Society to so re-elect them.
Hon. Franklin Murphy : I had not expected to say a word.
Judge Hancock, however, asks me to say something, and I will
take about two minutes of your time to give you two suggestions
born of my experience.
It has been said on this floor this morning that we had a Presi-
dent-General who served this Society for five years, and that we
couldn't get rid of him except we sent him out of the country.
That is true, and it is no reflection on any other occupant of that
chair to say that this Society was never served with such unselfish
devotion, with such magnificent ability, and that it never so pros-
pered as it prospered under the President-Generalship of Horace
Porter. (Applause.) And when we have a President-General,
qualified as he* was qualified to fill that office, if he is willing to
serve, I hope he will be continued in his office until you send him
out of the country.
Now, I want to say another thing, also born of my experience,
because as you know, no member of this Society was as close to
General Porter as I was during his incumbency of this office, and
no man in this Society knows better than I how much he did and
how well he did it for the Association. What do we want in the
office of the President-General? Do we want a man who will
preside over us with skill and dignity and honor ? Surely we do ;
and their name is legion, if that is all you want. Every member
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of this Society can do that if that is all you want. You want a man
who shall become so interested in the work, so familiar with the
technicalities of the work, and so devoted to the interests of it,
that he shall serve you as in my judgment no man can serve you
if you turn him out at the end of the year. That is practically all,
and that ends what I have to say.
If you have the best interests of this Association at heart, you
will let the President-General serve you as he can serve you by
virtue of his knowledge of the duties and opportunities of his
office, and not turn him out just as he gets ready to serve you at
his best.
Mr. Briggs (Texas) : Our Society is a very small one, but the
members of it have become impressed with the fact that the best
service to be obtained in organizations of this character is by hav-
ing in it men whom they can trust ; men of experience ; men who
have conducted the organization to a successful standpoint, and
whom they know can continue that work ; and not by putting it in
the hands of someone else simply for the sake of rotation of office.
It is the hope of our Society that this organization stands above
political feeling ; that it stands for something more than that every
man shall have a chance to be. President of the organization ; that
it is looking to the blending of the patriotic feeling throughout the
country. Put those men in the highest places who can engender
and stimulate and enhance that feeling ; and when we get such
men in, keep them. We want no limitations or restrictions im-
posed upon us by the Constitution or anybody else which will de-
feat that purpose.
Judge Whitehead : At our New Jersey Society, which is very
conservative, an amendment to the Constitution was proposed and
passed. A year afterwards, under the leadership of the present
President of that Society, it was proposed that this Congress
should be asked to set aside that amendment and return to the
Constitution as it existed originally. We in Jersey are in favor of
the amendment proposed by the committee; and as a member of
that committee, in connection with the others, we gave it the most
careful attention for the purpose of doing what we thought was
for the greatest benefit of the Society. That was our sole object.
It was the attention given to it, not for a day, nor for an hour, nor
for a week, but the attention given to it by our honored chairman
for months ; and he gave to it the best of his judgment and the
utmost of his experience.
I hope that the amendment proposed by the committee will be
passed. New Jersey, I said, is a conservative Society ; it is so con-
servative that it has kept its present President for ten years ; and
they threaten to keep him in office for the rest of his natural life.
(Cries of question!)
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President-General Logan : The question cannot be put until
the speakers have finished.
Mr. Handy: We have gotten down close to the meat of this
question. We have gotten away from the beautiful rhetoric about
freeing ourselves, down to the meat of the question as presented by-
Compatriot Murphy from New Jersey.
Now, all that I ask and all that the gentlemen who stand with
me ask, is that the compatriots know the real question and vote ac-
cording to their wishes. Take what the compatriot from New
Jersey has said, and said with so much force and clearness and dig-
nity ; add to that what our venerable and well beloved Compatriot
Judge Whitehead has said, with regard to the customs of the Soci-
ety in New Jersey, that keeps its President-General for ten years,
and even, for life. You come down to this, which is the question
before the Society : This is a movement to amend our Constitution
looking towards a permanent President-General (cries of No!
No !) . It cannot mean anything else (cries of No ! No ! and Ques-
tion !) . Can't you have patience with me for two minutes ? What
becomes of the argument made by Compatriot Murphy that, when
you found a man with the proper elements, it was best for the So-
ciety that you should keep him there, unless this means a perma-
nent President-General as soon as you can find the suitable man?
That is the real issue ; and when you come to vote, to pass through
the teller, without any bitterness in the thing or unseemly conten-
tion, those who desire a permanent President-General, or one for
a long series of years, should vote in favor of the resolution ; and
those who desire a shining succession of Presidents-General should
vote against the amendment. That is the issue ; we need not cover
it up with words.
Judge Hancock: This report has the unanimous confirmation
of the committee. The thought in our mind was this, that a soci-
ety based upon the principles of the Revolution should not take
away its own liberties. (Applause.) The geneleman says that
our purpose is to make a "perpetual" President and other officers.
Our purpose is to give the members of this Society the right to
elect and re-elect other members of the Society when they think fit
to do so. (Applause.) That is the purpose. What! Will you
take away our liberty and compel us not to vote for a man who has
proved himself to all the members of this body so well qualified for
a high position? Suppose to-day that General Washington were
President of this Society, would you make it impossible for him to
be re-elected? Suppose to-day that Thomas JefTerson were a
member, or Alexander Hamilton, it would be the same ; we could
not re-elect him because of some puny man who wanted the office
in rotation and who wanted the position for himself. (Applause.)
That is not the position of this body, and we can exercise the idea
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of rotation in office as well without that limitation as we can with
it. (Applause.)
Chaplain-General Warfield: I think the question was pre-
sented to us in the way that meets exactly the answer that our
Revolutionary History supplies to us. When We came, upon the
adoption of our Constitution, to choose a President of these United
States, our Constitution put no limitation upon his re-election. We
had him there as our first and second President of these United
States, and a grateful people were ready to continue him in office
as long as he could be induced to keep it. That spirit animated
him which I believe animates the members of this Society. When
he thought he had served his country long enough he declined the
office. I believe it would be so with the Presidents-General of this
Society; having in mind the memory of George Washington they
would serve us and be willing to serve us as long as they deemed
it for the best interests of the Society.
Mr. Handy : Our sires fought for freedom, while the statutes
standing on our books now stand for all of us being gagged.
While that holds, I am told I cannot vote for whom I please.
Now, I hold myself at liberty to vote at all times for this man or
for that man, and not for perpetuating in office the same man.
Mr. Bates (Michigan) : Our friend from Delaware seems to
misapprehend the character and spirit of this organization. Let
me say that there never was a time when it was not safe to trust
this Congress to do its own business in its own way.
Mr. Handy : Then why was this proviso never before adopted
in this Congress?
Mr. Bates (Michigan) : It was a mistake, and we recognized
it immediately after it was made; and we have been trying for
two years to correct that mistake. But I never could get this Con-
gress to a point where we could rectify it, and we have been at
it ever since. We saw the mistake then, and just as soon as we
should have the opportunity we proposed to remedy it. Our insti-
tutions are based upon the proposition that all political power rests
in the people. We have now come to the question as to whether we
shall have the opportunity, whenever we desire to make the choice,
whether it is one man or another man in the chair, to re-elect him
on the basis of his fitness. Or shall it be impossible for us to con-
tinue him ? There is not any question about this ; it is efficiency
we want, and when that exists there cannot be any question as to
the success and the ultimate attainment of all the objects and
purposes for which this Society exists. I want to get back to the
original Constitution and leave it free with me to exercise my
choice in the matter as I desire.
(Cries of "Question!")
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President-General Logan : The Constitution requires a two-
thirds vote of those present. The question now is on the adoption
of the amendment proposed by the committee.
General Anderson : I rise to a question of privilege. I ask
that, under the authority of the Constitution, votes be taken by
States.
President-General Logan : The point is made by General
Anderson that the vote should be taken by States. That is not
my interpretation of the Constitution. Section 4 of the Constitu-
tion requires a vote by States, giving the delegation from each
State the right to cast the whole vote of the State; but Article
VIII. of the Constitution seems to me to limit the application of
Section 4 of the preceding article, which says :
ARTICLE VIII.— AMENDMENTS.
This Constitution may be altered or amended at any meeting of
the Congress of the National Society, provided that sixty days'
notice of the proposed alterations or amendments, which shall
first have been recommended by a State Society, shall be sent by
the Secretary-General to the President of each State Society. A
vote of two-thirds of those present shall be necessary to their
adoption.
It is my judgment that a vote of two-thirds of the members
present is necessary to carry this, and that the vote be not taken
by States.
General Anderson : Section 4 of Article VII. reads as fol-
lows:
Section 4. State Societies shall be represented at meetings of
the National Society only by members of their own State Society,
or by members of other State Societies who may be designated
Dy the regularly appointed delegates from such State Society who
may be present at any meeting of the National Society; and the
delegates representing any State Society, as provided herein, shall
be authorized to cast the entire vote to which such Society is en-
titled, each delegate or representative present being authorized to
cast his proportionate vote, or fraction thereof.
I hold that the Constitution by that section gives us a right to
vote "by States." This is the proposition : A State is repre-
sented here only by one delegate ; you give them power to get other
delegates to represent them. I would like this Congress to con-
sider this imporant question. Let us consider that the delegates
from a single State cannot get enough delegates to fill up a quota :
their State would then be deprived of representation. Suppose
the State has eight votes ; they can only get two alternates or
substitutes in the Congress. Then that State would only have
two votes instead of eight, as would happen if Massachusetts only
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took four of its members to San Francisco to represent it. Then
the State of Massachusetts, when it came to vote in the Congress
of San Francisco, would only have eight or ten votes instead of
thirty. I take it as important in this case to allow us to vote by
States. I represent the State of Oregon; the State of Oregon
wants its vote ; it has only five or six, but it is entitled to them. It
is a question of the highest privilege, and I hope that you will
stand by your right.
President-General Logan : It is my opinion that Article
VIII. creates an exception to the general rule laid down in Sec-
tion 4 of the Constitution. Article VIII. says that "a vote of two-
thirds of those present shall be necessary to their adoption."
(Cries of "Question!")
President-General Logan : The question is on the adoption
of the amendment to the section proposed. The delegates will
please take their seats, and all in favor of the adoption of the
amendment will rise and remain standing until the tellers have
counted them.
The vote was counted, with the following results :
For the amendment 119
Against the amendment 30
President-General Logan : The amendment is carried.
Mr. Handy : I ask that the Chair call for those delegates pres-
ent to rise who have not voted, but who must be counted.
President-General Logan : I think Mr. Handy's point is
well taken. Those delegates who have been present and who
have not voted will please rise (non-votants rise). There are
twelve members present who have not voted, but a two-thirds ma-
jority of those present have voted in favor of the amendment; the
amendment is therefore carried.
Col. Logan (Pittsburg) : There is another amendment here
to be voted on : Amendment to Article VIII. I move the adop-
tion of the amendment which adds to the present amendment, "or
by the Executive Committee of the National Society," and which
permits the Executive Committee to present amendments.
President-General Logan : Judge Hancock will now pre-
sent to you the amendment.
Judge Hancock : The article as it now stands reads as fol-
lows :
We have added to this the words "or by a prior meeting of the
Congress, or by the Executive Committee of the National So-
ciety." This Committee acts entirely during the 'interim of the
Congress, and should have the right to recommend. But while
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they shall have the right to recommend, any recommendations that
they make shall be sent to the presidents of their different socie-
ties, so that the members of those different societies shall have an
opportunity to express their assent or dissent through their repre-
sentatives. The reason why we did this was that very few of the
difficulties which arise under the Constitution ever come before
the State societies ; but they do come, as you have seen to-day, be-
fore the Congress instead of the Executive Committee, and we
thought the latter had a right to recommend as well as the Na-
tional Congress.
President-General Logan : Are you ready for the adoption
of this amendment to Article VIII. ?
Motion duly seconded and unanimously carried.
General Appleton : I should like to make the following reso-
lution. It has come to the attention of some of us that monu-
ments have been erected on noted sites on very historic ground,
and I submit the following resolution in regard to them :
Resolved: That the Presidents of our State societies be requested to see
that there shall be incorporated in the Annual Report of the Ntaional So-
ciety from their societies, a list of all prominent monuments marking Revo-
lutionary sites within their respective jurisdictions, with a view to intensify
and further extend the lively interest that now exists in the hearts and
minds of all members of the S. A. R.
Mr. Bates (Mich.) : I move that the reports on monuments
be sent to the Historian- General, and that they be sent to him on
or about the ist day of April of each year.
Motion carried. Meeting adjourned until 8 130 P. M.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
Addresses delivered at the tomb of George Washington, Mount
Vernon.
Hon. Noble B. Larner : I suppose it is the same way all over
this country as it is in Washington. One of the first things that
we are taught to teach our children is to venerate and honor this
great place ; and when we of the District of Columbia thought of
providing some means of accommodating the members of our
Congress in an appropriate way we thought this was one of the
best places to which we could bring you. We are very glad that
so many of you are present ; we are very glad that the weather is
so good ; and we trust that before we get through you will all be
glad at having visited this great and glorious place.
We have provided for one or two short speeches on this occa-
sion, and when you have heard them we will retire to the mansion
above.
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I now take pleasure in introducing to you the great orator of
this country, the one we recognize as having no superior, Hon.
John GoOde, a member of the District of Columbia Society.
Hon. John Goode : Mr. President, Compatriots, Ladies and Gentle-
men : By request of the committee of . arrangements, it becomes my
pleasing duty to bid you welcome to this historic spot, around which so
many sacred memeories and so many hallowed associations cluster.
As members of the National Congress of the Sons of the American Revo-
lution, you have come from all parts of this broad land to the Capital
City of the Republic, "the home of science and of the Government," to
hold your regular annual meeting, to transact the necessary business of
your patriotic organization, to revive the pleasing associations of the past,
to keep alive in the hearts of the people the precious memories of the
Revolutionary struggle, to indulge a pardonable pride in the greatness and
glory of our common country, and to look forward with bright anticipation
to the magnificent destiny which, as we fondly trust, awaits it in the
future.
Your mission would not have been adequately fulfilled if, before return-
ing to your homes, you had failed to visit the home and tomb of Wash-
ington, the illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the Continental armies, the
first chief magistrate of the Republic, and the foremost man that ever
lived in all that was great and good; of whom it has been beautifully said:
"All discord ceases at his name,
All ranks contend to swell his fame."
If it be true, as Seneca wrote of a lofty and deeply shaded grove filled
with venerable trees, whose interlacing boughs shut out the face of Heaven,
that "the grandeur of the wood, the silence of the place, the shade so
dense and uniform, infuse into the breast the notion of a Divinity," what
must be the feelings of patriotism and reverence awakened in the breast
of every Son of the American Revolution when he makes a pilgrimage to
this American Mecca, with its hallowed shades, its sacred relics and its
inspiring associations! Here are the silent woods in which Washington
was accustomed to roam. Here are the beautiful fields and garden he
cultivated. Here are the stately trees he planted. Here is the modest
mansion in which he lived with noblest simplicity. Here is the historic
Potomac he loved so well. Here is his sacred tomb, to which his country-
men may always resort to gather fresh inspiration for the proper discharge
of the responsible duties of American citizenship. Where else upon this
continent can you find such memorials of the mighty past? Where else
can you find such an association to quicken the pulse and inspire the
hearts of the young with all those elevated principles and lofty desires
which make ambition virtue?
Of course every son of the American Revolution is familiar with the
history of Mt. Vernon, but it may not be inappropriate, perhaps, on an
occasion like the present to recount briefly some of its incidents. It was
named by Lawrence Washington, the half-brother of George Washington,
in honor of Admiral Vernon of the British Navy, under whom Lawrence
Washington served in colonial days during the war against Spain.
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George Washington inherited it from Lawrence Washington in 1753.
George Washington by his last will and testament devised it to his
nephew, B'ushrod Washington. Bushrod Washington devised it to his
nephew, John A. Washington. John A. Washington devised it to his wife,
Jane C. Washington. Jane C. Washington devised it to her son, John A.
Washington, who sold and conveyed 202 acres of the original tract to the Mt.
Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. It is proper to add that Jay
Gould and wife conveyed to the Association an adjoining tract of thirty-
three and one-half acres, which was a part of the original Mt. Vernon
estate. Without transcending the proper limits of an address like this,
it would be impossible to trace in detail the legislation of the General
Assembly of Virginia relating to Mt. Vernon. Suffice it to say that on
the 17th of March, 1856, an act was passed incorporating the Mt. Vernon
Ladies' Association of the Union. This act was amended on the 19th of
March, 1858, by the act which now constitutes the present charter of the
Association. It provided that the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association as
heretofore organized shall be constituted a body politic and corporate; and
that it shall be lawful for the said Association to purchase, hold and im-
prove 200 acres of Mt. Vernon, including the late mansion, as well as the
tomb of George Washington, together with the garden, grounds, wharf
and landing now constructed on the Potomac River.
We have thus seen how Mt. Vernon was acquired and how it is now held.
How was it paid for? To Miss Anne P. Cunningham, the first Regent of
the Association, and a highly cultured lady of South Carolina, belongs
the honor of originating the idea that Mt. Vernon should be purchased,
not by the general government, not by the State of Virginia, but by the
voluntary contributions of the American people, and consecrated forever
as sacred to the memory of the Father of his Country. Solitary and alone
she put this ball in motion. In December, 1853, from her home in Laurens,
South Carolina, she made her first appeal for funds through the news-
paper press over the title of "Southern Matron" as her nom de plume.
She labored zealously and unceasingly until her pious and patriotic ob-
ject was accomplished, and the stipulated sum of $200,000, as the purchase
money, was raised. In July, 1854, some of the most prominent ladies of
Richmond, Virginia, formed an association to raise money to aid in the
purchase of Mt. Vernon by the State, but at the earnest solicitation of
Miss Cunningham the Richmond association was organized into a central
committee of the Union, which continued until the Mt. Vernon Ladies'
Association was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly of Vir-
ginia, as before stated.
In rendering honor to whom honor is due for originating and carrying
on to completion the great idea of purchasing and dedicating Mt. Vernon
as "The Nation's Pilgrim Shrine," it would be unpardonable to omit hon-
orable mention of Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, the first Vice-Regent
of the Association of the newspaper press throughout the country, which
generously lent its powerful aid; of the members of that Ancient and
Honorable Order of Free Masons, of which Washington was a conspicuous
member; of the school of children who responded to the call with all the
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ardor and enthusiasm of ingenuous youth; of our noble countrywomen
who gave the cause the highest energies of their natures and the best
affections of their their hearts, and last, though not least, to the Hon.
Edward Everett, the gifted orator of Massachusetts, who in a spirit of un-
selfish and disinterested patriotism that was truly refreshing contributed
his valuable time and his brilliant talents for several years, without any
reward whatever, except an approving conscience and the heartfelt grati-
tude of his admiring countrymen. Perhaps it is not too much to say that,
without the magnanimous assistance rendered by Mr. Everett, the
requisite amount for the purchase of Mt. Vernon would not have been
realized by the Ladies' Association. It may be truly said to be the crown-
ing glory of his brilliant and honorable career. For several years he de-
voted himself to the service of the Ladies' Association going up and down
through the land, from north to south and from east to west, swaying
vast audiences by his charming rhetoric, moving the hearts of the people
to their- inmost depths, and refusing to accept any part of the proceeds of
his orations, not even reserving a sum sufficient to pay his necessary
traveling expenses. All honor to the noble and incorruptible patriot,
whose name has thus been inseparably connected with the name and fame
of Washington.
The Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, in its corporate capac-
ity, now holds the property under a trust to keep it sacred to the memory
of the illustrious dead. Under its constitution and by-laws, its officers
consist of a Regent, Vice-Regent, Secretary, Treasurer and such sub-
ordinate officers as may from time to time be appointed. A council
composed of the Regent and Vice -Regents meets here annually in May and
adopts the necessary measures for the proper management and control of
the property. As an evidence of their fidelity to the trust committed to
their hands, it is only necessary to point to the mansion, the furniture,
the tombs, the relics, the grounds, the shrubs, the trees, the garden, the
greenhouse and the fields. In testimony of their skillful financiering and
economic management, attention is called to the fact that after paying
$200,000, as the purchase money, keeping the property in repair and making
many valuable improvements, they have, according to the last annual re-
port of their treasurer, $81,105.07 invested in securities and held in
cash. I know that I utter a sentiment that will strike a responsive chord
in the breasts of all who hear me when I say that the Mt. Vernon Ladies'
Association of the Union, who have for so many years unselfishly and
patriotically devoted their time and energies, without any pecuniary com-
pensation, to the performance of this sacred trust, are entitled to receive
the everlasting gratitude, not only of every Son of the American Revo-
lution, but of every American patriot. What a beautiful idea that the
home and tomb of Washington should be tenderly cared for and preserved
by his noble and patriotic country-women ! What a fitting tribute is thus
paid by female purity and loveliness to manhood's greatest and most glorious
exemplar !
I shall not undertake on this occasion to pronounce a eulogy upon the
life and character of George Washington. Language is altogether too
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poor to enable me to do justice to such an exalted theme. You may search
history in vain to find his parellel. At the early age of sixteen, by ap-
pointment of Lord Fairfax, he went forth into the wilderness of the
West with a surveyor's staff in his hands. At the age of nineteen, in
preparation for the French and Indian War, he was appointed adjutant
of the Virginia troops, with the rank of major. Soon after attaining the
age of twenty-one he was appointed by Lieutenant-Governor Dinwiddie
as commander of the northern military district of Virginia. He served in
Braddock's disastrous campaign, and in the hour of defeat exhibited such
coolness, courage and indifference to danger that a colonial minister of
the gospel in a sermon declared his belief that he had been preserved to be
the savior of his country. While occupied at Mt. Vernon in his favorite
pursuit of agriculture, he was frequently elected as a member of the
General Assembly of Virginia, and in that capacity took a prominent part
in resisting the aggressions of the British ministry upon the rights of the
colonies. In 1774 he was elected by the Virginia convention as one of the
seven delegates to represent Virginia in the Continental Congress. ' After
the battles of Lexington and Concord he was unanimously chosen, on the
motion of John Adams, of Massachusetts, to be the Commander-in-Chief
of all the forces raised, or to be raised, in defense of American liberty.
As soon as he was commissioned in June, 1775, he addressed himself to the
difficult task of organizing the army, perfecting its discipline and obtaining
ammunition and military supplies. In March, 1776, he drove the British
out of Boston. Without dwelling upon the military operations which he
conducted during the progress of the war, it is sufficient to say that his
masterly retreat through the Jerseys, his admirable conduct at Trenton,
Princeton, Morristown and Germantown; the unshaken fortitude with
which he met clamors of the people and the disgraceful cabals for his over-
throw at Valley Forge during the winters of 1777 and 1778, where his
great heart was made to bleed on account of the sufferings of his men,
which he had no power to alleviate; his vigorous pursuit of Clinton across
the Jerseys towards New York, and the final campaign conceived by himself,
which culminated in the complete surrender of the Earl Cornwallis with his
entire army at Yorktown on the 19th of October, 1781 — all these have ren-
dered his name immortal and placed him, by the universal verdict of all
mankind, in the foremost rank of the great military chieftains, who by
their genius and skill have attracted the admiration of the world. He was
not only great as a warrior, but he was pre-eminently great as a statesman.
When the Federal Convention met at Philadelphia in May, 1787, to frame
the Constitution, he attended as a delegate from Virginia, and was unani-
mously chosen to preside over its deliberations. He took no active part in
the debates, but his guiding hand was felt in the adoption of that wonderful
instrument, pronounced by Mr. Gladstone to be the greatest work ever
struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. In 1789 he was
unanimously elected as the first President of the United States, and again
unanimously re-elected in 1792. He could again easily have been chosen
for another term, and even for life, but in turning aside from the tempting
and alluring offers of power and place and in voluntarily returning to the
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society of his beloved wife and the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, he gave
the finishing touch to his complete and well-rounded career, and vindicated
his title to the proud position which has by common consent been assigned
to him — "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen!"
Permit me to say that it will be an unhappy day for the Republic when
the American people shall cease to emulate the example and revere the name
of George Washington. Amid all the disturbing influences of party and the
selfish struggles for place, there is nothing so well calculated to allay the
strife of discord and rekindle the flame of patriotism as the example of
America's greatest and noblest son. The eloquent Lamartine, when he so
fearlessly confronted the red flag of Communism in Paris many years ago,
was heard to exclaim, "What France needs is a Washington !" What was
the secret of his power as shown in his most prominent characteristics? He
was the soul of honor and truth, as illustrated by a well-known incident in
his early childhood. He was modest, as is shown by the remark of the
Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses on a celebrated occasion, that
his modesty was only equalled by his merit. He had a chivalrous regard
for women, and was heard to say at Fredericksburg, when the ball was given
in his honor after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, that if he had
accomplished anything in his life he owed it all to his mother. He was
unselfish, as is demonstrated by the fact that he voluntarily resigned to
Congress the plenary commission he had received from them, and retired to
the peaceful shades of his beloved home. He was animated by an ardent
love of country and an unshaken faith in the final triumph of her righteous
cause. In the darkest hours of the Revolution, when he was beset by foes
within and foes without, and his army was almost destroyed by privation
and hunger, he exclaimed : "Leave me but a banner to place upon the
mountains of West Augusta and I will rally around me men who will lift
our bleeding country from the dust and set her free !"
He was an humble soldier of the Cross, and was not ashamed of the
Gospel of Christ. At all times and in all places, in public and in private, in
the Cabinet and in the field, he constantly recognized his dependence upon
the Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe, who controls the destinies of nations
and of men. In the contemplation of this exalted character the poet has
beautifully sung :
"Fame spread her wings and loud her trumpet blew,
Great Washington is near. What praise his due?
What title shall he have? She paused and said,
Not one ; his name alone strikes every title dead."
In returning from this historic spot, around which such a halo of glory
has been shed, and over which perhaps the beatified spirit of the immortal
hero and patriot is hovering to-day, let us carry with us fresh inspiration
for the proper discharge of the pressing duties of the hour. Let us take to
heart the lessons of self-abnegation and disinterested patriotism taught us by
his illustrious example. Let us renew our vows of allegiance to the con-
stitutional Union created by our fathers, and resolve that by the help of
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Almighty God we will transmit to our children, as they transmitted to theirs,
the noblest inheritance that belongs to man. The obligations of patriotism
require us to exert whatever influence we may possess, not only in preserving
those cardinal principles which lie at the foundation of our representative
system of government, but in contributing to the moral elevation and
improvement of the individual citizen. The public safety and the public
honor depend upon the force of individual character.
"He is a free man whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves beside."
Three cheers were given for Judge Goode.
Hon. Noble D. Larner : We shall now have the pleasure of
listening to an address by Mrs. Donald McLean, Regent of the
New York City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, on behalf of Mrs. Sarah Bowman Van Ness, Regent of
Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., of Massachusetts.
Mrs. Donald McLean : Mr. President, Sons of the American Revolution
and my Sister Confreres — if I may use such a phrase — and those of us who
are here on this occasion simply in our rightful and proudest positions of
wives, sisters or friends of distinguished men : No woman can have a greater
privilege than to rise to prominence through such affiliation. Do not believe
a word you hear as to the spirit of the "new woman" in this connection ;
but a woman is proud to be allied with distinguished men and to have her
standing from such alliance.
Before I proceed to a word upon the subject which is mentioned upon the
programme, I appeal to this audience to join with me in this sentiment. We
all know that in classic days, when an oration had caused the heart to throb,
the mind to lighten, and the soul to quicken, a laurel wreath was given the
great orator. But these are present days ; and this is America. I say, let
us give to this orator who has just spoken to us, and who is himself such a
magnificent type of what we "would all aspire to be in American citizenship —
an "American Beauty." (Applause.)
I will confide to you that Judge Goode and I have always this sentimental
exchange when we speak together in public.
And now it is but a transition from flowers to trees, and I am going to
ask the President, the officers, and this audience to exercise the highest
attribute of humanity, that is, the exercise of faith — the substance of things
hoped for but not seen. For although we are about to plant the tree, we
have literally no tree to plant. I find that absolute candor, in falling imme-
diately upon the mercies of my fellow men and women, is always the best way
to gain their sympathies. Mrs. Sarah Bowman Van Ness, whose generous
and patriotic mind first conceived the idea of sending to Mount Vernon from
the blood-baked fields of Lexington a tree, not only in remembrance of that
great day in 1775, but typical as it were of the elm under which Washington
stood in Massachusetts, raising his sword at the beginning of that marvelous
career which ends here, now so peaceful, so serenely resting, ever lulled to
sleep by the soft and silvery lapping of his own beloved Potomac — that
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woman, living in Massachusetts, desired to send that elm here that it might
convey to the South the knowledge that, as in those Revolutionary days, the
North and the South are as one. (Applause.) But a bereavement in her
family, and consequent illness, has prevented the tree reaching us to-day.
We have but just learned this fact. The site is laid for it, and when we
receive the permission of the trustees it is to be planted on the right there
of the tomb (indicating), ever to grow in verdant sweetness. In her name,
I present that tree to-day ; and I ask you : Do you not, as in a vision, see
that sapling elm, yes, and a thousand others, stretching forth into a great
forest of trees ; the memories of the magnificent period of that tree per-
petuates ; that early morning in Lexington where the hoofs of Paul Revere's
horse shook out echoes which have never died away, when, marching back to
Massachusetts, this country's destinies were assured? Growing on that
Common there in Lexington, in those stone-strewn fields lay the incipient
seed of this little sapling elm which will some day rear its majestic head
here ; that elm whose blood — the sap within its veins — brings down all the
Puritanic blood to melt immerged in that of the Cavalier ; and the Cavalier
stretches his great arms out to the Puritan maiden — as cavaliers have a way
of doing — bringing them together and embracing in this country the best
blood of both sections, and bringing them as a tribute here to this tomb.
(Applause.)
I have often felt that Providence meant that Washington should have no
corporeal sons and daughters ; that he meant him to be a father to every son
and daughter of the American Revolution. And we come here together
praying for that precious and parental blessing at this time, saying to him :
''Our revered and common father, we plant a tree, a tiny sapling, to grow up
great and noble, a type of the purest manhood." For the tree has ever been
the blessed type of the uplifting of humanity ; and from it we learn that
suffering must precede the entrance into paradise ; all the suffering of those
weary days of battle, succeeded now by that divine rest he lives in. We see
here opening before us great vistas in the forest of our country ; the trees
spreading from confine to confine, even as the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion live and breathe and revitalize this land in which is represented every
State — from Otis of Massachuetts to Oglethorpe of Georgia; from Clinton
of New York to Warfield of Maryland ; and all these great men in the
States of Ohio, Michigan, the great Northwest, and the West, come here, all
of us bound together by the hallowing power of Washington's name.
I say that you men are the forests which protect the streams of patriotism ;
through whose great leaves shine down the stars which inspire to everlasting
endeavor. You are the purest trees, upreared in great and noble majesty to
protect your country from devastation ; and there is the highest meed which
can come to any man, and much more come to any tree, when that tree
bursts into the most beautiful blossom that the human race has ever seen —
the blossom of the flag. (Applause.) For it must be a tree with living sap
within it that is taken from the earth and rears aloft the flag which it is
said comes from the Washington coat of arms — although it came from the
blood of his heart — and as it rises there, no orchid so rare ; no blossom so
rare in all the world, with its rich crimson of the rose, its pure white of the
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lily, its lasting blue of the forget-me-not, are gardens of flowers upreared
on the tomb of our immortal Washington, borne aloft on the springing tree,
which means the everlasting vitality and life of that country over which the
flag ever floats its protecting folds. (Applause.)
Three cheers were given for Mrs. Donald McLean.
President-General Logan : The New York Society of the
S. A. R. do not propose that the District of Columbia shall have
all the glory. I have here an American beauty for an American
beauty (presents a bouquet of American Beauty roses to Mrs.
Donald McLean) ; these are from the sons of the bravest to the
most eloquent of the daughters.
(End of Thursday afternoon's proceedings.)
THURSDAY EVENING SESSION.
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON REVO-
LUTIONARY MONUMENTS.
Read by Assistant Secretary Fisher.
Secretary-General National Society S. A. R.
Compatriot : Referring to your esteemed favor of April 17th, I would
say in reply that the Committee on Revolutionary Monuments have made no
progress and have held no meetings or conferences since the last annual
meeting of the National Congress, because the one object which the com-
mittee had in view was the building of a national monument in the City of
Washington, something after the plan outlined in my report to Congress
last year.
A special committee was appointed to take that matter in charge, and I
suppose will present a well matured plan for the erection of a national
monument to commemorate the heroic deeds of the men of '76. I think all
of our efforts should be concentrated upon building this one memorial, and we
should leave all the other matters of this kind until we have prevailed upon
the Congress of the United States to appropriate a sufficient fund to build
a magnificent monument, that may be classed among the greatest memorials
built on this earth.
Our committee would be very glad to co-operate with the special com-
mittee, but have not as yet had a conference with them.
In view of the facts as set forth above, I do not see any field of operation
for this committee. Respectfully submitted,
E. S. Greeley,
Chairman Committee on Revolutionary Monuments.
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Col. Griffith : I have been for many years a member of that
committee, but I have never been invited to attend one of its meet-
ings ; and with all due respect to my dear friend General Greeley
I do not approve of the idea of the erection of that Memorial Hall
in Washington City. Why? Our Society has laid down in its
constitution its objects and the work that we are to do. Among
those is that of commemorating the deeds of the heroes of the
Revolutionary War, the great battles, and the like.
Now, I have another proposition to make to you, and I promised
Judge Whitehead and a number of others that I would make this
statement to you to-night, else I would not trespass upon your
time. At Long Island, buried in the sands of the shore, are the
bones of eleven thousand heroes who died in that hell upon earth,
the British hulks in New York Harbor. That is the work that
we are organized for. This National Society, compatriots, has
never yet done one single act to commemorate this event. Let us
do something. A committee has been in existence for years and
never accomplished anything. When you know of what a little
State body goes on to do, what cannot the whole body, joining
hand in hand, do in commemoration of the eleven thousand and
over, who represent all of the States? — prisoners from all. It is
your duty ; do it.
I am in favor, Mr. President, of appointing a committee from
this national organization to join with the Empire State of New
York, and with the Daughters of the American Revolution, to
erect a monument, as we ought to do, if we remember whom we
represent, to the martyrs upon Long Island, to those long suffer-
ing souls who in those hulks from day to day looked for the rising
of the sun for some relief. We must not let that thing rest ; let
us build that tomb of the martyrs. Let us make it the work of
this national organization ; it represents all the States of your old
thirteen colonies. There is your work. I move that a committee
of thirteen be appointed to co-operate with the Empire State So-
ciety and with the D. A. R. in that State to erect at the tomb of
the martyrs, over the bones of those poor souls, some memorial.
God knows that in His mercy, after all their sufferings, they must
rest in His Paradise somewhere. (Applause.)
Mr. Guthrie: If I could add to the remarks of our friend
from Maryland it would be the proudest moment of my life. I
cannot do it, but I must say a word to endorse what he has said
as to the duty of this Society. It is to build a monument to the
martyrs of the Revolution. We, as Sons of the American Revo-
lution, could do nothing more glorious than to erect such a monu-
ment. I wish I could say it in the eloquent language that my
friend from Maryland knows so well how to use. They are born
that way in Maryland, and they cannot help themselves. They
talk, but they get things done. As you will all remember, there
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is no Society of the S. A. R. that has done for our cause what the
Maryland Society has done. (Applause.) They have put up a
monument upon the battlefield at Long Island, not alone from
Maryland pride, not from personal glory, but, I believe, from a
pure patriotic spirit. They put up a monument some years ago
that was a credit to the Maryland Society. Last October they un-
veiled in the City of Baltimore a monument which most of you
have no doubt seen ; it is a work of art and was the labor of many
years of our dear old friend Col. Griffith, to whom all the honor
and glory is due for the erection of that glorious monument.
(Applause.) It cost a great deal of money, but that makes no
difference to us now. Let us as a society back up Col. Griffith
in this effort of his to build a monument to the martyrs of the
Revolution in Long Island.
Mr. Warren : I wish to second the resolution of Compatriot
Griffith of Maryland that a committee of thirteen be appointed to
co-operate with our Society — the Empire State Society — and the
D. A. R. in the erection of that monument to the martyrs of those
prison ships in Long Island.
President-General Logan : Could not we make that new
business ? It seems to me that the proper action would be to
order it printed, and then your motion will be in order, Col. Grif-
fith.
Col. Griffith : Has the President-General fully considered
his decision before making it ? This is offered as a substitute for
that report, which will, of course, be printed.
Mr. Bunker : I rise to a point of order, and suggest that the
first thing to do is to receive the report and order it printed. It
seems to me that it would be discourteous not to do that ; and while
I am thoroughly and heartily in favor of the other movement, and
will second it to the best of my ability, I really think that as an
organization it would be better for us to let the regular order pro-
ceed. I move that that report be received and filed. Motion sec-
onded.
President-General Logan : I don't think the point of order
is well taken. I think that Col. Griffith's motion to substitute his
motion for the report of the committee is in order ; the house can
do with it then what it chooses.
Col. Griffith : I want it distinctly understood that under no
circumstances do I wish to reflect in any way upon the gentlemen
composing that Committee. Now, sir, to clear the ground, I
move that the report be received and printed; but the resolution
contained therein I offer as a substitute to my original motion.
Mr. Warren : In seconding the motion of Col. Griffith I was
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not aware of the report of the committee being present ; it is per-
fectly right to proceed in the order suggested.
President-General Logan : The report of the committee has
been received. Col. Griffith moves that it be placed on file and
printed ; but that, in place of the resolution recommended by the
report, a resolution be adopted that a committee of thirteen be ap-
pointed to co-operate with the Empire State Society and the
Daughters of the American Revolution in their efforts to erect a
monument to the martyrs of the prison ships.
Mr. Warren : I understand that Compatriot Griffith's motion
was that a committee of thirteen be appointed on the ground that
from the thirteen original States there were those who suffered
and gave up their lives in those prison ships in Long Island.
How, as I understand that, Compatriot Griffith stands ready to
amend it so that a committee be appointed from every State So-
ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution.
President-General Logan : Do you accept that amendment,
Col. Griffith?
Col. Griffith : Yes.
President-General Logan : The question, then, is upon the
motion of Col. Griffith to place on file and print the report, and in
place of the resolution contained therein to appoint a committee
of one from each State Society to co-operate with the Empire
State Society and the D. A. R. in building a monument to the
martyrs of the prison ships.
Mr. Baker (N. H.) : I think we ought first to vote on the
question of receiving and printing the report; then we shall have
cleared the ground for the other question to come up.
President-General Logan : A division of the motion is
called for ; do you consent to that, Col. Griffith ?
Col. Griffith : Yes.
President-General Logan : Then the motion will be con-
sidered as divided. The first question will be the printing of the
report.
Mr. William De Caindry : There has been pending in Con-
gress for several sessions past a bill looking to a proper recogni-
tion of the services of the victims of the prison ships in Long
Island. In consideration of that fact, I am inclined to think, on
reflection, that the action proposed here should be modified from
what has already been suggested. It seems to me that if the
United States Government, through its Congress, has the matter
under consideration, the efforts of this Society should be in the
direction of securing the legislation that seems to be on foot. If
we start out independently, we will be taking the wind out of the
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sails of Congress, and we may not get the advantage that we
could secure in Congress on that subject. I have two or three
copies of the different reports already submitted in regard to that
matter.
Mr. Warren : If we wait for Congress to take steps in this
matter we will all be in our graves before that monument is
erected.
Col. Griffith : The resolution says expressly that we are "to
co-operate." What you refer to has been the result of the action
of the D. A. R. in the Empire State. We propose to co-operate
and help them. For nine years, with the endorsement of this na-
tional organization, I made petition after petition; I appealed to
the Senate and to the House of Representatives of the United
States for aid in building the Maryland Revolutionary monument ;
but not one dollar could I ever get. As our friend Mr. Warren
says, you will die before you get it. Why? Because you recol-
lect who you are; other people do not recollect the old record
made by your ancestors, and that built this country. Politics are
rampant with love of the present. We could get any amount of
money to commemorate something that occurred eight days ago ;
but you are pledged to preserve and commemorate things that are
long back, and you have got to do your duty. You are pledged
to it ; you are pledged by the blood that runs through the veins of
every one of you to do this thing ; and, remembering who you are,
you are going to take action in this manner and secure it. It is a
disgrace on every one of you here to-night that that tomb of the
martyrs has not been erected long ago. How long are you going
to wait ; how long has it been since those poor souls fought for all
the blessings that you are enjoying to-day? You are forgetting
the past and all the miseries of those prison ships. Has there ever
been anything done ? No. Do not procrastinate any longer ; but
let us do it.
President-General Logan : The question is upon the mo-
tion to receive the report and place it on file and order it printed.
Motion carried.
President-General Logan : Now, the question is on the
other part of the motion ; i. e., to appoint one from each State So-
ciety to co-operate with the Empire State Society of the D. A.
R. in their efforts to secure the building of the monument.
Mr. Chandler (New Haven) : As I understand it, this reso-
lution of Compatriot Griffith is to be a substitute of a resolution in
General Greely's report. Will someone kindly read that resolu-
tion, so that we may know the nature of the resolution which is
contained in that report.
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(Secretary-General reads the resolution contained in General
Greely's report.)
I fail to see any resolution in that report; that is the reason I
called the matter up, as I really could not remember that there
was any resolution there. While I am heartily in sympathy with
the erecting of this monument for the heroic dead of those prison
ships, it seems a little out of place to offer this as a substitute for
a resolution that does not exist. The report of that committee
has been received and ordered printed ; and this comes up as a new
matter.
(Cries of "Question!")
President-General Logan : This will be considered as an in-
dependent motion. Are you ready for the question ?
Motion carried unanimously.
REPORT OF THE RECRUITING AND LOOKOUT COM-
MITTEE.
General Vincent : This report is in possession of one of the
officers, and I cannot get at it this evening, but as these reports
will be printed I move that this one be passed by its title.
Motion carried.
Compatriots : The undersigned, in behalf of your National Recruiting
and Lookout Committee, has the honor to submit for your information and
consideration its second annual report.
The plan looking to accessions of membership [pages 166-172, National
Year Book, 1901] has led to favorable results, which will appear through
the annual report of the Registrar-General. For the future our enlarged
field stands for cultivation by the Empire State Society. It has been well
said that the contribution by the Comptroller of New York, the Honorable
.Tames A. Roberts, to our knowledge of Revolutionary affairs cannot be
overestimated. In the report of General Knox — in the past accepted as
official and correct — New York State was credited with 17,781 men who
served in the War of the American Revolution ; but now we have, through
the discovery, arrangement and classification by Comptroller Roberts, the
names — all indexed — of 51,922 men, an increase of about 25,000, thus placing
the Empire State second only to Massachusetts in the number of men fur-
nished in the struggle for independence. Last September the Recruiting
Committee of the Empire State Society issued a manual or hand-book to
aid an increased membership of that Society, and in February, 1902, it was
announced, by the Chairman of the Recruiting Committee, that the Society
was "having a large accession of recruits, and of a very desirable sort."
The interest manifested by New York and Pennsylvania, also by Tennessee,
Delaware, the District of Columbia and other State societies, cannot fail to
produce grand results.
Reference has been made in the 1901 National Year Book of the Sons of
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the American Revolution to the resolution of the Congress of the National
Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, in aid of the formation of
societies by the Sons. February 7, 1902, the Recording Secretary-General
of the National Society of the Daughters furnished me with the following
additional motion by Mrs. William Lindsay, of Kentucky :
"I move that all assistance possible be given by the Daughters of the
American Revolution to the Sons of the American Revolution in forming
chapters in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North
Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia and
Wyoming."
GEORGIA.
The chances are promising that, at an early date, a Society will be formed
in Georgia conformably to Article IV., Section 2, of our National Society.
To that end the necessary blanks, with other needed information, have been
duly furnished.
NORTH DAKOTA.
In North Dakota a provisional organization was established some time
ago, with the Hon. William A. Bentley as President. Five satisfactory
applications have been received by the Registrar-General of our National
Society. It is respectfully suggested to the Minnesota Society that it may
be able to aid the movement in its sister State through correspondence with
persons therein who are eligible to membership.
OKLAHOMA.
Through the efforts of Mr. J. B. Thoburn, Editor of the Oklahoma Farm
Journal, the organization of the Oklahoma Society Sons of the American
Revolution is in progress ; and the necessary literature has been sent to him.
The Kansas Society, through its Secretary, is extending aid to the Oklahoma
people, and the energy manifested has promise of a successful result.
THE ORIENT.
The Society in the Orient of the Sons of the American Revolution effected
a temporary organization January 1* 1901 ; and the needed blanks, accom-
panied by information, have been forwarded thereto. Early in February
twenty-six names for membership were presented, and it is believed that from
that number the necessary fifteen can be had to organize under Article IV.,
Section 2, of the Constitution of the National Society. The recent presence
in the Philippines of our past President-General Breckinridge, and his ener-
getic efforts there and subsequently, have given a most healthful impetus to
the contemplated Society.
WEST VIRGINIA.
The revival of the organization in West Virginia stands without favorable
result, and as indicated in the National Year Book, 1901, page 171.
FRANCE.
Connected with the effort to "bring to light all records which may be of
use in establishing * * * the French veterans — officers and enlisted
men — who aided the American cause of Independence" [page 171, National
Year Book, 1901], it is gratifying to report that the lists were completed
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last October from the records in the respective departments of the French
Army and Navy, and the documents placed in the hands of our past Presi-
dent-General Porter, now Ambassador to France, for transmission to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; and the belief has been expressed that the
Ministry will cause them to be published in book form. Deep interest has
been manifested in the result, and the Registrar of the French Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution has had many letters from persons who
believe they are descendants from the French defenders of the American
cause. The Registrar has said : * * * "It is roughly estimated that
there are ten or twelve thousand names on the marine list, and a much
greater number on the army rolls."
The valuable paper this day received by the Congress, from the distin-
guished compatriot and Registrar of the Society in France, affords further
interesting details relative to this subject. Thomas M. Vincent,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS.
By General Anderson.
Secretary-General National Society, Sons of the American Revo-
lution.
Compatriot : I have received but few additional reports from the State
societies in relation to national parks commemorative of events in our War
of Independence. The Delaware Society reports that it has placed a
memorial tablet at Cooch's Bridge, and endorses the application of Penn-
sylvania in favor of a national park at Valley Forge.
New Hampshire recommends for that purpose the site of Fort William
and Mary, near New Castle, New Hampshire.
The Empire State Society, through the Chairman of its Park Committee,
now recommends Crown Point as the best place for a national memorial park
which can possibly be bought.
Kansas, through its Park Committee, favors Saratoga first and Valley
Forge as a second choice. It favors asking Government aid.
Wisconsin has nothing to suggest or propose.
Connecticut has the subject under advisement.
The Hawaiian Society favors society effort rather than applying for
Government aid.
Illinois favors the general scheme of having Memorial Revolutionary
Parks. It claims association in the Revolutionary struggle through the cam-
paign of Clark within her borders, and through the participation in that
heroic exploit of Illinois pioneers. Lastly, the Illinois committee recom-
mends that tablets be put up on all battlefields or places which have Revo-
lutionary associations until such time as titles can be obtained to the
locations for park purposes.
Ohio adheres to its recommendation of Marietta as a proper location for a
memorial park, and claims that Indian wars were continued within its
borders as a sequence to the War of Independence by British influence until
i be War of 1812.
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As a result of my correspondence (for our committee has had no meet-
ings), I am led to believe that our State societies can best follow the example
of Massachusetts, which has distinguished the sites of all battles or other
notable events in our War of Independence within her borders by parks or
memorial tablets or buildings. There can be no doubt of the propriety of
appealing to the general Government for aid, yet there is but little prospect,
in my opinion, of obtaining such aid.
It would therefore seem advisable for each State Society to depend upon
its own efforts. Co-operative efforts might be secured from all the societies
for securing the ownership of Valley Forge and Saratoga. As the patriotic
women of the country have purchased Mt. Vernon, it would seem that our
National Society might purchase the scene of the most historic self-sacrifice
recorded in history.
There should be, unquestionably, a national park at Yorktown. This
proposition, as I understand, has been laid before Congress by the Virginia
representatives in Congress. This is probably one of ten similar propositions
the House Military Committee has under consideration.
I beg leave to suggest, in conclusion, that if the question of establishing
Revolutionary Memorial Parks is relegated to our State societies, they will
probably take a more active interest in the subject than they do under
present conditions. Very respectfully,
Thomas M. Anderson.
On motion, duly seconded, the report was approved and ordered
placed on file.
Assistant-Secretary Fisher: I have a communication here
which emanates from the Sons of the Revolution of the Pennsyl-
vania Society.
Hon. Walter S. Logan,
President-General, Society of the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion, 27 William Street, New York.
Dear Sir: At a meeting of the Board of Managers of this
Society, held November 12, 1901, I was instructed to communicate
to your Society the fact that the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of
the Revolution proposes to erect within the State of Pennsylvania
an equestrian statue of Major-General Anthony Wayne, having
already a fund of over $6,000 for the purpose, and respectfully
invites your assistance for the accomplishment of this desirable
object. Respectfully,
E. A. Weaver, Secretary.
Mr. Brown (Pa.) : As representing the Pennsylvania Society,
I would like to have this Congress take some action upon this sub-
ject ; and yet it is perhaps one that would be rather difficult for us
to take positive action upon at present. I therefore move that this
communication be received and responded to, and that the matter
be referred to the Executive Committee of the National Society
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of the Sons of the American Revolution, to act upon and devise
any means by which this Society can properly join with the Sons
of the Revolution in erecting this monument to General Anthony
Wayne, whom we all recognize as one of the heroes of the Revo-
lutionary War.
Mr. Blynn (Pa.) : I received a communication identical with
the one just read from Mr. Weaver, of the Sons of the Revolution
in Philadelphia. We have but a young and small chapter in Phil-
adelphia, and I think it was rather a graceful act on the part of
the Sons of the Revolution of Pennsylvania to address us as they
did in that manner. I think it would be well, if possible, for the
Sons of the American Revolution to take some action in the mat-
ter. It is simply a matter of courtesy, even if we do not arrive
at any conclusion. I think, at all events, it would help us along
in the State if we need any help.
Mr. Underwood (Wis.) : I move to amend by referring the
matter to a special committee to be appointed by the President-
General in place of the Executive Committee ; and that they be in-
structed to report their conclusions to the Executive Committee of
the Sons of the American Revolution.
Mr. Richardson : It seems to me that we are getting a multi-
plicity of committees. I have been very greatly interested in this
discussion. We have a standing committee in this National So-
ciety on Revolutionary Monuments; we have already created an-
other Special Committee to secure, if possible, a monument to the
prison-ship martyrs on Long Island. This communication has
been received from the State Society of Pennsylvania, and it seems
to me that if the Pennsylvania Society is willing, it would be
proper to refer the matter either to the State Society of Pennsyl-
vania or to this standing committee of our National Society, a
committee for this special purpose. Referring it to the Executive
Committee of this Society would, in my opinion, take the matter
out of the hands of the Standing Committee, whose business it
should be to look after that. This committee is composed, or was
for the current year, of a large number of distinguished members
of this Society from all over the Union, and the President is Ed-
win S. Greely, of New Haven, Conn., and the Secretary, Hon.
Ebenezer J. Hill, of Connecticut. Therefore, if a substitute is in
order, I would move that this whole matter be referred to the
Pennsylvania Society, to co-operate with the Standing Committee
of our National Society on Revolutionary Monuments.
President-General Logan : The proposer of the amend-
ment accepts the amendment. The question is therefore on Mr.
Richardson's amendment to refer the matter to the Standing Com-
mittee instead of the Executive Committee.
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Mr. Brown (Pa.) : I am perfectly willing: to accept that
amendment if it will carry with it some response of the Sons of the
American Revolution to this communication, because it has been
addressed to the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
President-General Logan : You mean a courteous reply ?
Mr. Brown (Pa.) : Yes.
President-General Logan : We all agree that the motion is
that the Secretary shall formally and courteously acknowledge re-
ceipt of the letter, and that the matter be referred to the regular
standing committee of the Society on National Monuments.
Judge Hancock : I don't know exactly on what part of this
motion I speak. There is a history to our relations with the Na-
tional Society of the Sons of the Revolution which is probably
familiar to a great many of our members. You all recollect the
propositions which were made between the two societies at Cin-
cinnati, which failed through the non-action of the Sons of the
Revolution. Now, I know as a personal fact that a great part of
that opposition came from the Sons of the Revolution — came from
the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution in Phila-
delphia— who had monopolized about four-fifths of those who
were qualified to go into our Society. There has been a great
revolution, according to my information, and it comes from some
of the prominent members of that Society; a great revolution in
the sentiment of those people. We have done our duty ; we have
made all the overtures that could be made (a voice : ''Too much").
We all regret a division of the kind that exists ; that we should
have two societies of the descendants of Revolutionary forefath-
ers. We ought to be in a receptive condition of offers from them.
Now, then, you make this Monument Committee, and it has no
power to act ; you put this in the hands of the Executive Commit-
tee, and they do have power to act, and you should give them
power to act. Therefore, I am very much in favor of putting it in
the hands of the Executive Committee, because they represent the
whole Society. The Monument Committee can do nothing except
report at the next Congress ; the Executive Committee, if given
authority, can act immediately ; and this action should be taken in
response to this generous invitation, and should be taken at once.
Therefore, I would suggest that my friend Mr. Brown insist upon
his original motion ; that it be referred to the Executive Commit-
tee with power to act. Of course they must exercise some discre-
tion, but they should be the power, the real power in this Society.
If it goes into their hands with power to act, you may expect some-
thing from it. (Applause.)
Mr. Guthrie: It has been said that a house divided against
itself cannot stand, and the societies of Pennsylvania have often
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quarreled between themselves. I am sorry to differ with my es-
teemed friend Judge Hancock in one particular, and that is this :
This is a question that does not belong to the National Society of
the S. A. R. ; it belongs to Pennsylvania, and we claim the right in
our State of taking care of our own affairs.
Assistant-Secretary Fisher : It seems to me that the argu-
ment in the remarks of Mr. Guthrie amounts to this : That the
communication has been addressed to the National Society of the
S. A. R. instead Of the Pennsylvania State Society ; and it is up to
the National Society either to ignore the proposition or take some
action. Of course, if it be thought best to refer it back to the
Pennsylvania Society, this Society can do as it pleases with re-
gard to that ; but we have their communication before us as a Na-
tional Society, and the proposition is to make some reply to it.
A Delegate: I move, as a substitute to the original resolu-
tion, that the communication be referred to the Executive Com-
mittee of the National Society without any recommendation.
President-General Logan : I understand that Judge Han-
cock objected to the acceptance of Mr. Richardson's amendment.
Consequently the original motion cannot be withdrawn under ob-
jection; that is, the motion that has been made.
Judge Hancock : I second the motion which is to refer it to
the Executive Committee, not the motion of Mr. Richardson to
recommend it to the Standing Committee.
Mr. Richardson : My object in making the motion was to
settle the matter readily and speedily and rightly. So far as the
matter of the relations between the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion and the Sons of the Revolution referred to by Judge Hancock
is concerned, I feel that that question should not come up in this
discussion. It seems to me that it is no discourtesy to the Penn-
sylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution if we
courteously acknowledge the receipt of their letter and refer it to
a standing committee created by this body to consider just such
questions. I think I know a little, perhaps — if you will pardon a
personal allusion — of the relations between the two patriotic so-
cieties, and of the history of the movement for union of those so-
cieties. But it seems to me that that question should not arise
here at all; that we should, in a courteous manner, acknowledge
the receipt of this letter and refer it to the proper committee ; and
the thing is done. For that reason I made the motion to substi-
tute or to amend.
Mr. Brown : I am sorry this is taking up so much time. It
seems to me that it is a very simple matter. The Sons of the
Revolution have sent this communication to the National Society ;
they have sent a similar communication to the Pennsylvania State
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Society, which that Society will take care of itself. They now
send it to the National Society, and we take it as an act of courtesy
on their part which we are to respond to in a courteous manner,
as has been suggested. Furthermore, it seems to me a worthy
object, for, as I understand it, they propose to put up a monument
which will be a worthy memorial of General Wayne ; and I think
our Society should co-operate with them in their efforts to have
this monument erected. Any action that we can take, either as
the Pennsylvania State Society or as the National Society, I think
we ought to take. The question is, what action can we take in
the erection of this monument, and what does this Congress think
about it ? If this Congress feels like doing anything of the sort, I
don't see that it makes much difference to what committee it is re-
ferred, the Committee on Monuments or the Executive Commit-
tee, except that the Executive Committee has power to act, and
could, perhaps, if they thought best, set something in motion.
I understand that we are now acting upon the amendment. If
the Congress thinks best to refer it to a committee that has power
to act, namely, the Executive Committee, then let it go to the Ex-
ecuive Committee.
President-General Logan : The question is upon the amend-
ment. The original motion is that the Secretary courteously ac-
knowledge the letter and that the matter be referred to the Ex-
ecutive Committee. The amendment is that the Secretary ac-
knowledge the letter and that the matter be referred to the stand-
ing committee. The question, then, is on the amendment. All in
favor of the amendment signify the same by saying aye.
The amendment is lost.
The question is now upon the original motion.
Mr. Stockett : I offer as a substitute that the communication
to the national body be referred for action to the Pennsylvania So-
ciety instead of the Executive Committee of this National So-
ciety.
A Delegate : This being a question of policy, it should be re-
ferred to the Executive Committee, which is supposed to direct
the policy of this Society. Therefore I am entirely in favor of the
original motion that the matter be referred to the Executive Com-
mittee.
President-General Logan : The question now is upon the
motion to refer the matter to the Executive Committee. The
amendment is that it be referred to the Standing Committee, which
amendment has been defeated.
Motion carried to adopt the original motion.
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION.
Mr. President-General, and Compatriots : To facilitate matters,
printed copies of the report of the National Committee on Publication have
been circulated throughout the Convention Hall. The National Committee
on Publication begs leave to report the National Register completed, and ask
that the committee be now discharged. The publisher of the Register, Com-
patriot L. H. Cornish, assumes full responsibility for the work, which has
the backing of your President-General and the endorsement of the Publica-
tion Committee. We herewith present the National Society with the first
printed copy of the work complete, which will speak for itself better than
any report which we might make. Very respectfully submitted,
Howard De Haven Ross,
Chairman.
Compatriots : Acting under the resolution adopted by the Pittsburg
Congress, viz. : "That the Board of Managers shall proceed with the publi-
cation of a National Register, without expense to the National Society," the
National Committee on Publication arranged with the Secretary of the
Empire State Society, Compatriot L. H. Cornish, for the publication of the
National Register. The plan of publication was followed as originally
adopted by the General Board of Managers and Executive Committee at the
Pittsburg Congress, viz. : "That the general arrangement of the National
Register be by States, with a general index attached, and Form II. recom-
miended, giving the members and record of ancestors together in one
paragraph."
The National Committee on Publication begs leave to report the National
Register now completed and ready for delivery, and ask that the committee
be now discharged.
It is hereby recommended that the resolution as adopted at Boston, Mass.,
October 19, 1900, by the General Board of Managers and Executive Commit-
tee of the National Society, S. A. R., to "authorize and direct the Registrar-
General and other officials of the National Society to print with the pro-
ceedings of our next annual Congress a complete list of names of our com-
patriots, and that the National Committee on Publication is given full power
to extend it, with such other information as may be practicable, in concert
with the several State societies without increased expense," which resolution
was deferred for one year, be now postponed indefinitely, as the publication
of the National Register removes the necessity of said resolution.
Very respectfully submitted,
Howard De Haven Ross,
A. Howard Clark, Chairman.
Secretary.
EXTRACT AND SUMMARY FROM CORRESPONDENCE NATIONAL
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION.
May 14, 1901, President-General Logan directed the attention of the
National Committee on Publication to a plan of Compatriot L. H. Cornish
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for the publication of the National Register. On May 17th and 28th con-
ferences were held in New York between President-General Logan, the Chair-
man of the National Committee on Publication, and Compatriot L. H.
Cornish. On May 30th Compatriot Cornish submitted the following
proposition :
To the Chairman of the National Committee on Publication, 8. A. R.
Dear Sir and Compatriot : I will guarantee to publish, under the direc-
tion of the National Committee on Publication, a National Register for the
S. A. R. to contain the names of all members of the order up to December 1,
1901, with record of ancestors, as per Form II., with general index attached.
Will also insert a history of the National Society for the past ten years ; also
histories of the various State societies. Will thoroughly illustrate the work
with half-tone engravings of the various monuments erected and historic
sites preserved through the efforts of the State societies. Will produce a
work accurate and satisfactory in every way to the entire membership of the
order and an honor to the National Society, without the Committee assuming
any obligations whatever, or without one cent of risk to the National Society,
and with the backing of our President-General, Walter S. Logan. The work
will be produced under the plan of the National Committee on Publication,
and what has already been accomplished will be used as a nucleus from
which to work. An appeal will be made to the entire membership for sub-
scriptions to the work either through the various State societies or direct
to the individual member. Will use discretion so that none of the smaller
societies can take offence at their showing in the work. Am so situated that
I can begin the work at once, and can have it completed and delivered before
the 1st of March, 1902, provided you close the matter at once. Will arrange
with Mr. A. Howard Clarke for the preparation of the MSS. in the office
of the Registrar-General of the National Society. Will not in any way
burden the members of the National Committee on Publication with details.
Hope to return from Mohonk Lake rested for my labors on the book.
With best regards, I am. Very truly yours,
L. H. Cornish.
The foregoing proposition was accepted June 4, 1901, by the National
Committee on Publication, and the work taken up at once. The National
Register is now completed and ready for delivery.
A. Howard Clark, Howard De Haven Ross,
Secretary . Ch airm a n .
At the conclusion of the reading of this paper a volume of the
new National Register of the Society was presented to President-
General Logan.
President-General Logan : I accept this Register on behalf
of the Society with great pleasure, and it shall be deposited in the
archives of the Society.
Mr. Bates (Michigan) : I move that the report of the Com-
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mittee on Publication be filed and that the Committee be dis-
charged.
Col. Griffith : I move to amend that motion to include a vote
of thanks to the gentlemen of that committee.
President-General Logan: It is moved and seconded that
the report of the committee be received, placed on file and printed,
and that the committee be discharged with the thanks of this asso-
ciation for the splendid work that they have done.
Mr. Bates (Mich.) : And that the further thanks of this Con-
gress be extended to Mr. Cornish, who has done the entire work
in the matter.
Mr. Warren (N. Y.) : I think it is due to the publishers of
this Register to say that the copy which has been sent to us is not
yet perfect, and that when the copies are properly bound they will
be in much better condition. I think Mr. Cornish will agree with
that.
General Breckinridge: I am only going to suggest that
others have co-operated in the preparation of this work. I think
our Registrar is responsible for a part of the work.
A Delegate : This book may be very good ; it may be a work
of value ; but do not let us begin thanking people until we have
seen it.
General Breckinridge : As I understand it, without wishing
to interfere with the gentleman's vote, we all have the feeling that
a right good work has been accomplished ; that the officers of this
Society have expressed their opinion on it, and that that opinion
has been submitted to this Congress for its present action. If
these statements are true, there never have been more faithful offi-
cers doing more admirable work.
President-General Logan : The motion is to receive and
place on file and print the report of the Publication Committee and
discharge it, and that the thanks of the Society be given to the
Committee, to the Registrar-General for his work in the matter,
and to the publisher, Mr. L. H. Cornish.
Motion carried.
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL PRESS COMMITTEE
Read by Assistant-Secretary Fisher.
The Press Committee believe its work during the past year to have been
one of value to the Society, in that, through the efforts of its members, the
meetings of State and subordinate societies have generally been given desired
publicity in the press, and through such publications the aims and motives
of the organization have been evidenced to the general public in a favorable
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manner. Uniform anxiety to such end has been apparent in the actions of all
of its members. This Committee has lost during the year a member dearly
beloved by all who have ever had the pleasure and the honor of his acquaint-
ance. Compatriot Lucius B. Wing, its Ohio State member, has died. He
himself was the son of a Revolutionary soldier, a banker at Newark, Ohio,
and a past President of the Ohio Society, S. A. R. His was a sweet disposi-
tion, such as few possess. The two generations of his father and himself
covered a period of nearly 150 years.
His fondest recollections were the stories told him in his childhood by his
then aged father of his Revolutionary War experiences. These he loved to
repeat to those of us whom best he knew. Up to the time of his decease he
was an easy but thoughtful writer, and his efforts were full of interesting
historical matter.
The National Society has lost one of its purest, noblest characters, and
this committee can but mourn its loss.
This committee extends its thanks to the press of the country for its
cordial assistance and to the presidents of the State societies for valuable
suggestions and co-operation. Respectfully submitted,
MOULTON HOTJK,
Chairman Press Committee.
On motion, duly seconded and carried, the report was ordered
printed and placed on file.
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AD-
VANCEMENT.
Hon. John Goode, Chairman.
John Paul Ernest, Secretary.
Dr. J. W. Bayne, Bernard R. Greene,
Gen. H. V. Boynton, Dr. E. M. Gallaudet,
Col. M. M. Parker, Mr. W. V. Cox,
Col. A. J. Logan, Gen. T. S. Peck,
Nathan Warren, Col. Ralph E. Prime,
Gen. Geo. M. Sternberg.
The National Committee on Advancement, Sons of the American Revolu-
tion, has sought to stimulate interest in the Society and its work throughout
the country, and to bring to the attention of the people generally the benefi-
cent purpose for which the Society was founded. Believing that the scope of
its operation should not be limited exclusively to those already compatriots of
the Society, or to those eligible for membership in the Society, the committee
has enaeavored to place the purposes and objects of the Society before the
general public in such a way as to secure the endorsement and hearty co-
operation of all thinking men, who recognize in the work of the Society a
valuable aid in the endeavor to bring to a proper understanding of our in-
stitutions not only the thousands annually coming to our shores, but also
those of our citizens who, in the rush of these days, with their changing con-
ditions, are apt to lose sight of the principles for which our forefathers
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fought. And the committee is glad to report that the evidence is convincing
that the people at large are taking an active interest in the work of the
Society and are lending their aid in the accomplishment of its objects, thus
assisting in the propagation of that healthy American sentiment so necessary
to the preservation of our free institutions.
Within the Society the committee has to report the general condition of
the State societies as excellent. It was with regret, however, that the com-
mittee noticed an apparent lack of interest in some of the Southern societies,
and efforts were made to revive interest in them, notably in Virginia and
West Virginia, and the Committee has reason to believe that its work was
not without the accomplishment of some good. Especially in the State of
Virginia, that grand old Commonwealth, rich in historic memories of Revo-
lutionary days, has the Committee endeavored to inspire additional interest
in the Society, and the Chairman of this Committee, who is a citizen of that
State, has made personal efforts among his people with that end in view.
On the 22nd of February, 1902, he attended the annual meeting of the
Society at Richmond, Va., and was much gratified at the large attendance
present at the meeting and the interest displayed by the members in the
exercises of that occasion, and he has reason to hope, and believes, that the
interest will continue to increase until the State Society of Virginia will
become, as it should be, one of the most active in the country.
While it is the duty of each State Society to increase its quota of members
by the addition of those within the jurisdiction of each Society who are
eligible to membership and acceptable as members, and while the most active
effort in this direction should be made, yet the Committee is of the opinion,
and therefore recommends, that an earnest effort should be made by each
State Society to reach those who are not eligible to membership and to call
to their attention the work of the Society and secure their co-operation in the
same. In this way alone can the lofty purposes of the Society be fully
accomplished, and by this co-operation the most lasting results may be
attained. John Goode,
John Paul Earnest, Chairman.
Secretary.
On motion, duly seconded and carried, the report was ordered
placed on file and printed.
REPORT OP THE NATIONAL FLAG COMMITTEE.
To the Annual Congress of the National Society, Sons of the American
Revolution : The undersigned, in behalf, and by direction, of your permanent
Flag Committee, respectfully reports :
To keep you in mind of the history of the committee, we beg leave to recall
the fact that it was appointed by direction of the Cleveland Congress of our
National Society, held on April 30, 1897, by the following resolution : "Re-
solved, That this Society appoint a permanent committee ot thirteen, who
shall, on behalf of this Society, have charge of the fostering of public senti-
ment in favor of honoring the flag of our country, and preserving it from
desecration, and of initiating and forwarding legal measures to prevent such
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desecration. That such committee shall join with, and invite to join with
it, other patriotic societies and committees of the same, to co-operate in the
aforesaid objects and ends. That such committee has the power to fill all
vacancies, to fix its own quorum, and to make its own rules, and that such
committee shall be known as the Flag Committee of this Society." And
pursuant to that resolution the committee was constituted as follows : Col.
Ralph Earl Prime, Yonkers, N. Y. ; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Nahant,
Mass. ; Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, M. C, Norwalk, Conn. ; General J. C. Breck-
inridge, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. ; Gen. Thomas Wilson, U. S. A., New
York City ; Col. Lewis Cheesman Hopkins, New York City ; Gen. Horatio
C. King, New York City ; Edward Hagaman Hall, New York City ; Walter
Seth Logan, New York City ; Hon. John Whitehead, Morristown, N. J. ;
Gen. George H. Shields, St. Louis, Mo. ; James H. Hoyt, Cleveland, O., and
Rt. Rev. Charles Edward Cheney, Chicago, 111.
A good Providence has preserved the lives of all of this committee but one.
With the year just passed, Gen. Thomas Wilson, U. S. A., retired, died.
He was a most active, enthusiastic and devoted lover of the flag, a patriotic-
citizen and a lovely character. No one knew him but to love him. After a
long illness he was taken from us, and will always be regretted. His loss
was a deep grief to all of us. We cannot afford to lose many such men.
It will be noticed that the committee was so constituted as to secure at
New York and its vicinity eight members of the committee. This was in
order that a quorum of the committee might easily be obtained. General
Wilson was one of those appointed from New York City. His vacancy has
not yet been filled, but will in due time be filled, in pursuance of the terms
of the resolution, which authorizes the committee to fill its own vacancies,
and necessarily his place must be taken by some patriotic, earnest and equally
prominent Son of the American Revolution, residing in or near New York
City.
The other members of the committee, it will be observed, are men of na-
tional reputation — Senators, members of Congress, general officers in the
army, or formerly in the army, etc, etc. — and extending from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Your committee, though it has not met often, has not failed to meet and
discharge the duties laid upon it.
At a meeting of the committee in June, 1897, in pursuance of almost the
very letter of your instructions, we took the initial steps by which was
consequently consummated the formation of the American Flag Association,
which is a union of the Flag Committees of all the -patriotic societies in the
country, and to the number of about sixty flag committees. It is not neces-
sary here to state the names of all of these societies having flag committees
composing the association. It is enough to say that they are from Societies
of the Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, Sons of the Revolution, Daughters of the Revolution, Societies of tne
Colonial Wars, Societies of the Founders and Patriots of America, Societies
of the War of 1812, Grand Army Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Commanderies of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and other patriotic
societies.
Thus it will be seen that in the American Flag Association the efforts of
sixty odd Flag Committees are united and consolidated.
At the time of making our last report, by the efforts of the different flag
committees united in the American Flag Association, legislation had been ob-
tained from nineteen States and territories, all in the line of defending the
flag of our country from desecration, and during the sessions of the leigsla-
tures, now about all adjourned, we have succeeded in adding three States,
making twenty-two in all, namely : Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland.
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota. Iowa,
Colorado, Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington, the three added dur-
ing the present year being the States of Rhode Island, Maryland and Ohio.
It is no easy matter, at great distances, to see that work is done at the
proper time in order to obtain State legislation, and we earnestly request the
delegates to your Congress from States not named above to use, at the next
occurring of their legislatures, their utmost endeavors to bring their own
States and Congressmen into line, and increase the column of States having
obtained flag legislation.
Several bills are also before the National Congress, and a most satis-
factory hearing was had before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs
concerning this legislation, at which the chairman of your committee, as also
President of the American Flag Association, with other members of other flag
committees, attended and were most courteously and kindly heard, and most
pleasant assurances of action given, and we are yet hoping that before the
present session of Congress adjourns we shall have a federal law upon the
subject.
Those who aid us in this matter ought loyally to adopt and use in their
States the form of legislative act approved by the American Flag Associa-
tion. Let no one call it drastic, for it is not drastic, but is comprehensive.
It reaches not only the desecrating uses to which the flag itself is put, but
reaches the use of the flag as a means of advertisement in any form, by
pictures or by printing or otherwise.
Let us hope that the day is not far distant when the flag of our country
will be protected from desecrating uses in all the States of thp Union. Let
us also hope that the process of patriotic education going on in the public
schools will bring up, to take our places, a more patriotic generation, who
will not be so filled with the spirit of commercialism of this age as to forget
the reverence due to the symbol of our country and all that is good for which
it stands.
We are at times met with obstacles that surprise and humiliate, and make
us wonder of what stuff some men are made ; that in the commercialism of
this day that spirit should get hold of citizens of our great country and ob-
scure and crush and strangle all that is virtuous and good and patriotic and
loyal, and should bring into defeat in our legislative halls our brethren and
compatriots who never succumbed to defeat in the battles of our country.
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For four years we have asked at the hands of the Legislature of New Jersey
a flag law which would place that State in the noble column of the States
already named, and for four years we have met there with defeat. Com-
mercialism has beaten us, and men who love the dollar more than the land
that gave them birth and sustains them, and gives them the right of citizen-
ship, have succeeded in sustaining their low-born desire to prostitute our flag
to advertising, and are yet in the ascendant. Four years the lower house
has passed the law we ask, and for four years the bill has each year been con-
signed by a Senate Committee to the pigeon hole or the waste basket. This
year the efforts of our compatriot, now the Governor of that State, of com-
patriots of the New Jersey Society, and of companions of the Loyal Legion
and veterans of the Grand Army have all been ineffectual. Does New
Jersey want to materialize the old and ought-to-be-obsolete slander that New
Jersey is no part of the United States? But we will never give it up, and
we shall continue to besiege the halls of the Legislature of New Jersey until
she joins the column.
In Virginia we have for a second time failed in securing what we desire.
The Secretary of the Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution,
with prominent men who served their country in the Spanish- American War,
and among them men who also followed the Confederate flag in the Civil
War, took interest in this matter and sought from the Virginia Legislature
what we asked ; but alas ! a political race question occupied so much atten-
tion that the flag had no potency or power to make itself felt. Let it be put
upon the hearts and consciences of our Virginia compatriots to take this mat-
ter in hand at its next Legislature, and demonstrate for Virginia, the
mother of Presidents, that the flag honored, yes, created, by Washington, her
greatest citizen, the father of our country, shall be recognized and honored
there as he honored it, and that, too, by a statute which shall defend it from
desecration.
Kentucky, too, was too busy in other matters to give us attention.
Many of our legislatures are bi-annual. Next year the largest number of
such will be in session. Will not all our compatriots residing in such
States constitute themselves committees and take charge of these matters,
and with all the zeal, energy and patriotism which should possess every one
of our compatriots, join hands and hearts and efforts, and secure flag legis-
lation, and each see to it that his own State joins the column.
We earnestly recommend that every State Society in which no flag com-
mittee has yet been appointed adopt a resolution in the language of the reso-
lution appointing this committee, and recited earlier in this report, and thus
appoint a flag committee, and direct that flag committee to associate itself
with the American Flag Association.
We desire to thank the Sons of the American Revolution residing in Rhode
Island, Ohio and Maryland for their valuable aid in the work of the com-
mittee, and especially we record our thanks to Hon. Edwin Warfield, Presi-
dent of the Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution, for his most
valuable and effectual aid, generosity and sympathy given, and which has
resulted in our obtaining the coveted legislature in that State. We must not
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omit our thanks to Mrs. Chas. W. Lippett, State Regent in Rhode Island of
the D. A. R., for aid, without which we should have failed in that State.
It will not do to close this report without calling your attention to the in-
creasing interest in celebrating Flag Day, the 14th day of June. This day
has come to be regarded in some respects as a national holiday. In some
States school exercises are required toward its celebration. In many of the
States it is celebrated in schools by local regulations of school officers. We
earnestly exhort our citizens to join in making the celebration of E lag Day
this year a great event. Let us see that the Stars and Stripes, with all that
they mean, shall on June 14, 1902, greet the rising and setting of the sun
from every church edifice and public school, and also from every private and
public building in the land. Let there also be in all our schools commemor-
ative exercises telling the story of the flag, and the country, and the glory
of the country, of which it is the symbol, that young hearts may begin to
swell with that pride and patriotic sentiment without which they cannot be
good citizens, nor true and loyal men.
In behalf of the committee,
Ralph E. Prime,
Chairman.
On motion, duly seconded and carried, the report was ordered
placed on file and printed.
Adjourned to Friday morning, May 2, at 10 o'clock.
FRIDAY MORNING SESSION.
Meeting called to order at 10 o'clock.
Chaplain-General Warfield : Opening prayer.
Almighty God, who does according to Thy pleasure in the midst of the
inhabitants of the earth, we rejoice that we have been permitted to gather
here and to behold these beautiful scenes that witness to what Thou hast
wrought for this our great nation. We thank Thee that we have been per-
mitted to visit the scenes associated with the memory of him who was the
great father of his country. We rejoice in all the recollections which have
reminded us that Thou, who dost hold all things in the hollow of Thy hand,
without whose will not a sparrow can fall to the earth, hast superintended
and permitted the growth and development of this great land of ours. We re-
joice to feel that this is a great Christian commonwealth and that the names
of the men who are hallowed here, the names of Washington and Lincoln,
who are associated with the great heroes in the development of our country,
are the names of men of reverect faith in Thee.
We pray Thy blessing upon this Congress ; we pray Thy blessing upon
the election of officers to represent us in the year that is to come. We pray
that as we go away from this place we may carry with us inspiring memories
of our meeting here ; of the scenes that we have witnessed ; of the actions in
which we have participated. And may the spirit of our great Revolution be
in the heart of every member of the Society ; and may we each do something
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in the year to come to promote those higher interests of our land which shall
continue to reflect the memory of the past. May we be faithful in all things
committed to us ; and may Thy manifest blessing be upon us all. We ask it
in the name of Him who is our Lord and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FARMER RESOLUTION.
Register-General Clark : All that concerns this report has
been incorporated in the report of the Registrar-General.
President-General Logan : New business is now in order.
General Anderson : When our most illustrious compatriot
was stricken down by the hand of the assassin there was a uni-
versal outburst of indignation over this foul crime, and it was gen-
erally proposed to suppress anarchy by the rifle and the rope and
the policeman's "billy." But since we have had time for more
temperate reflection, it has occurred to all of us, no doubt, that
prevention would be better than this rough-and-ready means of
suppression. With this in view, compatriots, I propose to offer
a resolution as an educational means to try and bring certain ele-
ments that are coming into our country in touch with American
principles and in sympathy with our institutions. In other words,
compatriots, it is most important that we should now make this a
society of patriotic endeavor, as Christians have united in Chris-
tion endeavor. (Reads the resolution.)
WHEREAS, One of the principal objects of this Society is to inculcate
Ihe spirit of American patriotism among the people; and
WHEREAS, Many thousands of foreigners, alien in language and purpose,
come to our land every year, whose education in the spirit of American
institutions is of the highest importance ; and
WHEREAS, Work of this nature is in full accord with the purposes of
this organization ; therefore,
RESOLVED, That a committee of five be appointed by the President-
General at his early convenience to consider some practical means by which
the foreign element and others in our country, particularly those who have
formed associations which seem to be inimical to our institutions, may be
informed concerning distinctively American principles in order that they may
become patriotic citizens of the land of their adoption.
Judge Hancock : I second that resolution.
General Anderson : Any motion for administrative purposes
that requires much argument is not worth having at all. But I
would say this briefly: That my idea was, in framing this mo-
tion, that this element to which we refer — the Hungarian, Italian
and Polish element — all those people have been liberty-loving peo-
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pies, and have had some glorious episodes in their own history;
and the question is, whether we cannot make them an element of
strength instead of weakness and danger to our institutions.
Briefly, I have in mind this — but of course I cannot anticipate
what a committee appointed will do, except to appeal to th^m in
some such manner : To have tracts translated into their lan-
guages and distributed among them, or to have speeches made to
them in their own language, so that it will be brought home to
them what American principles are ; and also to teach them what
their rights are; that it is not necessary in our country to resort
to violence ; that they can appeal to the processes of law with con-
fidence, and can receive justice there. With these few remarks, I
submit this motion to your consideration.
Judge Hancock : In seconding this motion, I think it best to
go back to the original Constitution of this Society. Probably no
one here knows so intimately that Constitution as does my friend
Judge Whitehead, but in that Constitution one of the principles
set forth — I cannot now give the exact language — is that we
should educate ourselves, our descendants and our citizens of the
country at large in the principles upon which the Revolution is
founded. I do not believe that foreigners are the only ones who
need this education ; I think there are plenty of others who have
come down from our ancestors who have forgotten the leading
principles for which the Revolutionary War was fought. Now,
then, that being so, I wish to state why I came into this institu-
tion. It was not because I cared to have my genealogy set forth ;
it was not because I wanted to be a member of a society of this
kind for no other purpose than to meet once a year; but simply
because I believed it to be, as it is stated in the Constitution of the
Society, a means by which we could spread development and edu-
cate our people, some of whom have forgotten the great principles
of our Government; that we might educate them into the princi-
ples of our Government and bring them to the ideal simplicity of
our Constitution and of our Declaration of Independence. That
is the reason why I entered this Society.
It seems to me that in some respects we have fallen behind this
high ideal of our object;. that we have made possibly too much use
of it for the benefits of our inheritance; that possibly we have
made too much use of it in a social way. Now, a society like this
cannot live; I say it cannot live unless it has a definite purpose
and a definite work on hand ; and I have yet to see anything that
equals that which General Anderson has set before you to-day.
Therefore, I for one am heartily in favor of the adoption of this
resolution and the appointment of the committee it suggests.
Rev. Rufus Clark : I am very much interested in this propo-
sition. I come from a part of the country very much dominated
bv the foreign element, and it has become a great question with us
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as to whether freedom is altogether a blessing; whether freedom
has not its dangers. Mr. Bryce, in his "American Common-
wealth," taking the standpoint of a foreigner, has dwelt at great
length upon this American experiment. He has drawn a beautiful
and graphic picture of this great country filling up rapidly with
those who have been trained under foreign despotisms ; a very
slow progress of assimilation; a very rapid progress of physical
development ; things that belong to the cultivation of the soil ; and
the unlimited franchise granted to these foreigners. Mr. Bryce
raises the question as to what principle America can rely upon, in
view of the fact of an almost utter absence of tradition, of sta-
bility in the past, what principle this American republic has as a
guarantee of its perpetuity.
During the past there have been those on our own soil, together
with those of our foreign critics, who have raised this question.
Now, those of us who are here have seen certain corrective influ-
ences ; the success of Republican schools, for instance. We have
seen the growing power of the newspaper and its freedom in the
expansion of the English language, the solidifying influence of this
one common speech. We teach others to recognize, and we rec-
gonize, with gratification, the power of the church ; but aside from
that it does seem to me that there must be .some organization to
set forth, if possible, in some distinct way, statements touching the
original principles upon which this American Republic was found-
ed as a land of freedom ; that those principles are adequate to meet
not only the conditions of our own time, but also the possible con-
ditions after this century. And from out of this Society — a so-
ciety which stands for the recognition of the influence of those
who gave us freedom — it seems most appropriate that we should
be the ones to set forth in some formulated, definite and public
way, the recognition of the fact that we have not only received this
inestimable privilege of freedom, but that we have the means
within our reach of perpetuating it and protecting it for the future.
There are despotisms other than the despotism of the dollar, and
those despotisms which are to arise in the future are to be cor-
rected by commending ourselves, not to those who are the heads
of the departments of the nation, but to the heads of those to
whom we have intrusted the government, to the lower classes, the
foreigner who is naturalized here. He is the one we have to edu-
cate, and I know of no company of patriotic citizens better quali-
fied to do this than a committee such as it is suggested to appoint
here.
Now, you have the soldier, with his enlarged vision in dealing
with the application of the principles of our national government
to other people and to those of another hemisphere. He comes
here with his fresh experience and this larger vision. You have
the politician, who has to do with the affairs of State, and with
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industrial and social problems ; and you have also the ethical feat-
ure— the priest — who looks at it from another standpoint. We
have these different standpoints from which to view this great
problem, beset with its innumerable difficulties, and from which
each of us can take a different point of view. You have the op-
portunity of calling before the American people some distinct,
definite principles which belong to the fundamental organization
of this country, which it seems to me the time is now ripe to set
forth, that are adequate for the permanency not only of the gov-
ernment of our land, but of these new lands which we have ac-
quired. We believe with the poet :
The lily must fade, its petals decay,
The rose from its stalk must sever,
But the stars remain forever and ever ;
and we believe therefore in the permanence of the institutions
which are grounded upon this principle of freedom. (Applause.)
Delegate from Hawaii : When the Society was first founded
in Hawaii I did not connect myself with it ; the matter of studying
the genealogy of my ancestors was not specially interesting. My
father during his declining years became much interested in that
subject, and said: "William, why don't you take more interest
in this matter ?" I said : "I am afraid, father, if I go far enough
back I will come to a cross-bar stick, an upright tree, and a rope."
He was very much grieved, but finally produced enough influence
to induce me to join this Society, and I connected myself with it
because of the principles set forth in that short clause of the pro-
posed amendment placed before us yesterday — to inculcate patri-
otism, true patriotism. Had it been in order yesterday I should
have felt disposed to propose that the position of that clause be
changed and made more prominent.
When the General's resolution was read this morning I am sure
that it struck a responsive thrill in the heart of each member, for,
after all, I believe we all feel that the most important duty of this
Society is the inculcation of true patriotism, spreading it abroad
throughout the world, but beginning in our own country.
I would like to say, as no doubt you have probably all heard,
that in Hawaii we have had a good many revolutions in the past.
When the peril was imminent, when the Queen determined to
overthrow what we have of a semblance of constitutional govern-
ment, it took the community unprepared and unready. But spon-
taneously the people came together, and when the committee be-
gan its labors we looked around and found that those who are now
the Sons of the American Revolution led that movement. (Ap-
plause.) We had a session in the afternoon, and in the evening
we met again to consider what could be done to oppose the tyran-
nical endeavor of the Queen. One of our members had been sent
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out to ascertain what could be done in the way of armed resist-
ance. He came in and reported to Mr. Thurston, who was our
chairman, and said : "Mr. Thurston, I find we can get just sixty-
eight rifles to back us up against the hundreds in the hands of the
Queen and those who are backing her in this endeavor." Mr.
Thurston and all who were with him said: "That is enough;
now we will go ahead." (Applause.) And it proved to be
enough. To-day, owing to the efforts of the S. A. R. and the as-
sistance of patriots in this country, Hawaii is an integral part of
the United States of America, for which we hank God. (Ap-
plause.)
We, perhaps more than you, feel the importance of inculcating
the principles of true Americanism in Hawaii. Hawaii stands at
the extreme west, the entrepot, the gate of this great country.
There we must receive the great sweeping tide from the west of
Oriental nations, and it lies with us first of all to teach the prin-
ciples of patriotism and of true Democracy. And that, gentlemen,
is something that appeals to us ; and we trust that this resolution
will be adopted, and that this Society will head the movement to
teach true Americanism to all the nations of the earth. (Ap-
plause.)
Your Congress — the Congress of our country — when it adopted
a territorial act for Hawaii, overthrew what we believed proper
safeguards for the elective franchise; and the elective franchise
was then given to a people who were not entirely fitted to receive
it. We are now enduring the results of that, and with us it is of
the utmost importance that something should be done ; that an or-
ganized effort should be made to teach that people of a new coun-
try the real principles of Americanism. Slowly, but very slowly,
they are learning; but I believe when that people, the Hawaiians,
can rely upon and thoroughly understand what Americanism
means, they will swing into line, and Hawaii will eventually prov'
to be a useful as well as ornamental part of this great country. I
trust the resolution of General Anderson will be adopted. (Ap-
plause.)
Chaplain-General Warfield : General Anderson has re-
quested me to say just a word in this connection, and it is with
great pleasure that I do so. Our Compatriot who has just spoken
to us has referred to what seems to me to be a very illuminating
thought in this connection. He says that he was not anxious to
trace back his genealogy lest he should come to that point in it
where some one of his ancestors had suffered as a malefactor.
Everything depends upon the point of view we look at it. As a
minister of the Gospel I stand here to-day as the representative of
one who died as a malefactor that we might have liberty, freedom
from sin, and all those influences which have gone to lift up men.
The sacrifice that that man made on Calvary, his willingness to
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bear 'the shame of the cross, makes us proud to bear the reproach
of the Cross. Now, I have right in my immediate neighborhood
a member of our Society who is proud to trace his pedigree back
to a man who died upon the gallows. And why? Because it
was worth while for Nathan Hale to die on the gallows. (Ap-
plause.)
This is exactly the point that is presented to us in this question.
We have millions of men who have come to this country seeking
liberty and freedom. We turn back the pages of our history to
that day when John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachu-
setts Bay, was tried before the court for having exercised the
authority that was given to him with more vigor than seemed to
be wise. He made on that occasion that famous little speech of
his, as it is known to after generations, in which he pointed out
that the liberty which they had come to America to seek was not
a liberty to do wrong, but a liberty to do right ; and then went on
to say that there were two principles that must ever be associated :
Liberty and authority ; that these two principles can never be
separated, and that we must be prepared to stand for these things
not only at the sacrifice of our property, but, if need be, of our
lives. Now, it is this principle of liberty with authority — not li-
cense but liberty — the liberty to do right, that we need to instruct
our whole people in ; and one of the forces which we are using to-
day, and which I would like to see encouraged and invoked by this
Society, is that of the free lecture courses in some of our cities.
I have been connected with such a movement in New York and
Philadelphia, and it is simply marvelous the ignorance we dis-
cover on the part of those who are about to exercise the suffrage of
our own nationality. For instance, I have an examination paper
which was handed in at the end of my course of six lectures on
the development of the United States, in which I tried to incul-
cate this spirit. I had a paper handed in not long ago in answer
to the question : "What was the principal cause of the French
Revolution ?" The answer was : "When the Pilgrims came over
in the cabin of the Mayflower they got together and drew up an
agreement, which they called a charter, and as soon as they landed
at Plymouth Rock they immediately tried to put this into effect,
which led to the distress of the British Government, and was the
cause of the French Revolution." This ignorance of the essen-
tial principles of our government is what this Society should do
its utmost to relieve. Education is the basis of sound administra-
tion of law, and I believe much can be done in this line. I heartily
second General Anderson's resolution.
Mr. Barnard (Maryland) : I regard this resolution as one of
the most important that has come before this Society. Our fath-
ers gave us the Declaration of Independence, and they then fought
to perpetuate that Declaration of Independence. They are dead
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and gone, and they have left us their sons ; the principles of Amer-
ican Independence are menaced, and it is up to the S. A. R. — if
you will pardon me for a slang expression — to act on this thing.
I move you, therefore, Mr. President, that we have a rising vote
on this resolution.
Mr. Briggs (Texas) : I think five too small a committee of
that kind. What we want on such a committee as that is the in-
terest of every State in this Union, and every territory and every
part of the country which is included in the glorious United States.
We want on it the President of every State Society in this coun-
try. It is essential for us to have that spirit inculcated in the
minds of the youth throughout this country, and to have it done
as quickly as possible. I assume this committee is going to have
power to act as well as to recommend, and the result, if it is spread
and broadened sufficiently, will be to replace the necessity for this
flag legislation. We shall not have to enforce patriotism and rev-
erence for the flag by law. It should be from the love and the
spirit of the founders of this country, and the principles which
they stood for, that should make us revere this flag. I therefore
move, gentlemen, as an amendment, if it is acceptable to the mover
of the original motion, that the President of each State Society
of this organization be included in that committee.
Mr. Dennis (R. I.) : If that is to prevail this Society would
resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole. It would be better
for the general Society to appoint its committee of five and to rec-
ommend that the State societies appoint their committees of three,
one of whom, perhaps, should be the president of each committee
ex officio. Then we can get into line and work out in each State
our own salvation, and report to the general committee, who have
supervision of the whole. It seems to me that that would sim-
plify the attainment of the object sought by General Anderson's
resolution.
President-General Logan : Do you insist upon your amend-
ment, Mr. Briggs?
Mr. Briggs: No, sir.
President-General Logan : Then all in favor of the resolu-
tion will signify the same by a rising vote.
(Carried unanimously.)
Secretary Fisher read the reply of General Greely to the tele-
gram sent to him yesterday.
New Haven, Conn., May i.
Capt. Samuel E. Gross,
Secretary-General S. A. R., the New Willard,
Washington, D. C.
Thank Compatriots for kind words of regard and sympathy.
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Mrs. Greely's condition improving; extend hearty greetings and
best wishes to all. E. S. Greely.
President-General Logan : I announce as the committee to
be appointed under General Anderson's resolution the following
gentlemen :
General Anderson, Chairman.
Governor Murphy, of New Jersey.
Judge Hancock, of Pennsylvania.
General Appleton, of Massachusetts.
Judge Beardsley, of Connecticut.
Mr. Griffith : I offer the report of the special committee ap-
pointed upon the death of Lieut-Commander James C. Cresap, the
first Secretary-General of this Society, and move its adoption.
(Motion carried.)
Whereas: The Almighty Creator and Ruler of all things has in his
wisdom seen fit to remove from our midst Compatriot Lieut.-Commander
James Cephas Cresap, U. S. N., one of the organizers, April, 1889, at
Fraunces' Tavern, New York City, of this National Society, and the first
Secretary-General of the same; and,
Whereas: The said Compatriot, by his earnest, heartfelt, patriotic work,
not only contributed largely to the great success and flourishing condition
of this National organization, but has so endeared himself to all its mem-
bers that his loss is learned with deep sorrow ; therefore, be it resolved,
1st. That this National Congress express its sincere sympathy with his
family in their irreparable loss.
2nd. That this report be entered in full in the Journal of this Con-
gress.
3rd. That an engrossed copy of the same be signed by the President-
General and the Secretary-General and sent to the family.
Respectfully submitted,
Wm. Ridgely Griffith,
William W. J. Warren,
William M. Bunker.
Mr. Bates (Mich.) : We were all delighted to hear, the day
before yesterday, the greetings from the Society in France ; and it
was equally gratifying to know that through the efforts of Gen-
eral Breckinridge, representing this Society, a society of a similar
character had been organized at Manila. Now, to show the good
feeling to those societies in the distant parts of the world, I de-
sire to offer this resolution:
Resolved: That the greetings and encouragement of this Congress be
cabled to the societies in the Orient and France, and that the President-
General be requested to send this message.
(Motion carried.)
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Judge Whitehead : I offer the following resolution, as to
which I desire to say a few words. A few years ago an associa-
tion of some ladies and gentlemen was formed in our State, having
in view the erection of a monument on the battlefield of Princeton.
A small sum of money has been raised, and has accumulated in-
terest, which is at the command of that association. That asso-
ciation seemed to die, but lately it has been resuscitated under the
auspices of Governor Franklin Murphy; our Legislature, at its
last session, appropriating $15,000 for the purposes of this asso-
ciation, provided that it would raise the same amount. That
amount will be raised by the association, as you may depend upon
it when Franklin Murphy leads. For the $30,000 a bill has been
introduced into Congress for a like sum to aid us in the building
of this monument, and these resolutions which I offer to you this
morning are to that end. I hope that this convention will give us
a unanimous vote on this question.
Some historians insist upon it that the Battle of Princeton was
the decisive battle of the Revolutionary War. In that opinion I
do not concur. In my opinion, the skirmish — it can hardly be
called a battle — at Trenton was the decisive battle of the war. A
few days afterwards, however, the Battle of Princeton followed,
and that, in connection with the Battle of Trenton, led this coun-
try on to victory from that moment. The Battle of Princeton was
one of those events which, following the trail of the two battles of
Trenton, led to the results which were obtained in 1782, which,
rallying the dismayed people of this country, cheered their hearts
and led the Congress of the United States to appoint General
Washington .as dictator ; and from that moment the end was se-
cure.
I ask of you a unanimous vote upon these resolutions.
Resolved: That in the judgment of this Convention, composed of dele-
gates from the State Societies of the Sons of the American Revolution, it
is eminently appropriate that the Congress of the United States should aid
the people of New Jersey in their effort to commemorate the battle of
Princeton by the erection of a suitable monument. That that battle where
Washington imperiled his life in rallying his dismayed troops and led
them from retreat to victory when that other gallant Virginian, General
Mercer, was wounded to his death, so important in the results of the
A.merican Nation, deserves an enduring recognition at the hands of the rep-
resentatives of the people whose freedom it so materially aided in securing.
Resolved: That this Convention respectfully urge upon the Senate and
Representatives in Congress assembled the passage of the bill before the
National Legislature appropriating a sum of money in aid of the enter-
prise now inaugurated for the building of a monument on the battlfield of
Princeton, and that a committee of seven, of which the Honorable Franklin
Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, shall be Chairman, be appointed to take
such measures as they may deem proper to secure the passage of the bill.
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Resolved: That these resolutions be properly engrossed, signed by the
President-General and Secretary-General of this Convention, and sent to
the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House.
(Motion carried unanimously.)
General Appleton : I would like, on a question of privilege,
to make a statement. Massachusetts has been largely interested
in erecting, on Dorchester Heights, where Washington won our
early victory and saved our city without injury, a beautiful me-
morial costing upwards of $30,000, and it was dedicated on March
13th last. It is a marble building and an observatory combined,
easy of access, and it preserves that height from being wrested
from the city in any way. It is there marking and protecting
that spot for all time. (Applause.)
Mr. Warner : A resolution was adopted last year in Pitts-
burg to erect a memorial to the men who were instrumental in
founding this Republic. Two gentlemen from each of the States
and Territorial Societies were ppointed on that committee, and I
had several conferences with him, and he with others ; but so far
nothing definite has resulted except that he is willing to aid in this
project in any way possible. As you know, the Daughters of the
Revolution are seeking to establish for themselves a Continental
Hall here. At my instance, Mr. Perry, representative from Mary-
land, introduced in Congress, at its last Session, a bill appropriat-
ing $200,000 for the establishment of this memorial in this city.
This was referred to the House Committee on Libraries, and has
not yet received favorable action. No meeting of our Committee
has been held during the past year, owing to the remoteness of
its members and because. I did not think that there was any oc-
casion for it. I suggest that this Committee be continued, or a
new one appointed, as you deem proper, and that we pass this
resolution again calling the attention of Congress to the matter.
You have influence with your representatives that can largely
stimulate and foster this enterprise. When they come to this seat
of legislation at the National Capital, although they are con-
stantly reminded of it, they pass into oblivion unless they are
stimulated by the constituents who have sent them here ; and I
hope you will aid and develop the patriotism which already exists
■ in the bosoms of your representatives and impress upon them the
fact that although this city is studded with beautiful memorials,
yet to the men who founded this Republic there is not one of
definite character. I therefore move this resolution.
Resolved: That the Congress of the United States be and is again
urged to provide for the erection at the National Capital of an appro-
priate monument to the deeds of valor and self-sacrifice of the heroes of
the American Revolution.
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General Breckinridge: I move that the Committee be con-
tinued.
(Motion carried unanimously.)
Mr. Warner : I desire to present the following petition :
Resolved : That the Congress of the Sons of the American Revo-
lution urge upon the Senate and House of Repreesntatives in
Congress assembled, such early and favorable action upon the bill
now before that honorable body, providing for the construction of
a Bridge from the National Capital to the National Cemetery at
Arlington, as a memorial to American patriotism, as will provide
for the laying of the corner stone of that structure during the 36th
National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in
October next.
On motion, duly seconded and carried, the petition was ordered
placed on file.
A Delegate : I make a motion that a Committee, consisting of
General Breckinridge and Mr. Noble D. Larner, be appointed to
confer with our most eminent and illustrious compatriot, the Presi- •
dent of the United States, and see if some hour can be fixed when
we may pay our respects to him at the White House. If it could
be done to-morrow, I think it would be very fitting — it probably
could not be arranged for to-day. The President of the United
States is our most illustrious compatriot ; he honors this Congress
by meeting with us at the Banquet to-night ; and we can do little
less than to pay our respects to him, as the Chief Executive of this
Nation, at the White House.
Registrar-General Clark : I hardly think it is proper for
the members of this Congress to invite ourselves to go to the White
House, being such a large party ; but rather let a Committee go ;
and I would suggest that the President-General appoint such a
Committee. The President has kindly consented to be at our
Banquet to-night, and under the circumstances we had better not
go as a delegation.
Mr. De Caindry : In pursuance of the request of a Committee
of our local Society here, I addressed a letter, through the proper
channels, asking that the privilege and honor be conferred on us
by the President of receiving this Congress at such hour as might
be agreeable to him. An alternative proposition was also pre-
sented, that if it were not convenient for him to receive the Con-
gress, he would honor us with his presence on the evening of the
Banquet. I received a letter from the White House informing us
that the President will meet us at the Banquet to-night. So that
the matter of paying our respecs to the President has already been
decided by him in favor of his coming to see us. (Applause.)
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President-General Logan : I announce as the Committee of
the National Society on the McKinley memorial the following
gentlemen :
Chairman, Hon. James M. Richardson, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Arizona, Ool. P. P. Parker, Phoenix.
Arkansas, Dr. Chas. E. Nash, Little Rock.
California, Hon. Geo. W. Spencer, San Francisco.
Colorado, Gen. Irving Hale, Denver.
Connecticut, Hon. Jonathan Trumbull, Norwich.
Delaware, Rev. Francis M. Munson, D.D., New Castle.
District of Columbia, Gen. Joseph C. Wheeler, Washington.
Florida, W. O. H. Shepard, Pensacola.
French Republic, Gen. Horace Porter, Paris.
Hawaii, Hon. Wm. R. Castle, Honolulu.
Illinois, Col. Geo. M. Moulton, Chicago.
Indiana, Hon. Wm. E. English, Indianapolis.
Iowa, Hon. Wm. H. Baily, Des Moines.
Kansas, John Taylor Burris, Olathe.
Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Page Grant, Louisville.
Louisiana, Henry Warmoth Robinson, New Orleans.
Maine, Leslie E. Cornish, Augusta.
Maryland, Maurice E. Skinner, Baltimore.
Massachusetts, Rev. Carlton Albert Staples, Lexington.
Michigan, Hon. Alfred Russell, Detroit.
Minnesota, Hon. William H. Grant, Minneapolis.
Missouri, Gen. Geo. H. Shields, St. Louis.
Montana, James A. Shoemaker, Helena.
Nebraska, John H. Daniels, Omaha.
New Hampshire, William P. Fiske, Concord.
New Jersey, Hon. John Whitehead, Morristown.
New York, William W. J. Warren, New York City.
Oregon, Hon. Geo. H. Williams, Portland.
Pennsylvania, Col. Albert J. Logan, Pittsburg.
Rhode Island, Hon. Chas. Warren Lippett, Providence.
Society of the Orient, Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge.
South Dakota, Rev. E. E. Clough, D.D., Deadwood.
Tennessee, Col. J. B. Killebrew, Nashville.
Texas, Hon. Clay S. Briggs, Galveston.
Utah, Hon. John Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City.
Vermont, Hon. Fletcher D. Proctor, Proctor.
Virginia, Benj. B. Minor, LL.D., Richmond.
Washington, Hon. John L. Wilson, Spokane.
Wisconsin, Jonathan Franklin Pierce, Milwaukee.
President-General Logan : I also announce the committee
appointed for the erection of a suitable memorial at the Tomb of
the soldiers on Long Island :
Chairman, Col. William Ridgely Griffith, Maryland.
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New York, William W. J. Warren.
Maine, Eugene M. Stubbs.
New Hampshire, Otis G. Hammond.
Vermont, William T. Dewey.
Massachusetts, Nathan Warren.
Rhode Island, Hon. Wm. T. C. Wardwell.
Connecticut, Gen. E. S. Greeley.
New Jersey, Andrew Bray.
Pennsylvania, A. J. Logan.
Delaware, Howard De Haven Ross.
District of Columbia, Wallace Donald McLean.
Virginia, Henry H. Trice.
Ohio, James M. Richardson.
Indiana, Hon. William E. English.
Illinois, Charles Kingsbury Miller.
Kentucky, John C. Lewis.
Wisconsin, Col. W. W. Strong.
Montana, H. B. Palmer.
Arizona, Major Lewis W. Coggins.
Arkansas, Dr. Charles E. Nash.
California, William N. Bunker.
Colorado, Gen. Irving Hale.
Florida, Hon. John C. Avery.
Society in France, Gen. Horace Porter.
Hawaiian Society, Hon. Peter C. Jones.
Iowa, Hon. Wm. H. Baily.
Kansas, G. F. Kimball.
Louisiana, Edwin Thomas Merrick.
Michigan, George William Bates.
Minnesota, Hon. Don R. Noyes.
Missouri, Hon. Clark II. Sampson.
Nebraska, John H. Daniels.
Oregon, Hon. Geo. H. Williams.
South Dakota, Frederick A. Haines.
Tennessee, Gen. Gates P. Thurston.
Texas, Hon. Ira H. Evans.
Utah, Hon. Hoyt Sherman.
Washington, Dr. E. Weldon Young.
J. Noble Stockett (Md.) : I desire to offer the following
resolution :
Be it Resolved: That this Congress approves the efforts of the His-
torian-General to secure from the State Societies full and authoritatire
accounts of all special exercises held by such societies on the erection and
unveiling of monuments or tablets, with photographs of the same, the
marking of historic sites, battlefields or graves of Revolutionary soldiers, or
the observance of special celebrations as to Revolutionary matters, to the
end that all such information may be collected and preserved by the His-
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torian-General to enable him to compile a monumental and tablet history
of the Revolution, together with other historical matter.
And that this Congress does rquest and urge upon the historians of the
different State Societies the necessity of making complete and prompt re-
sponses to the official requests of the Historian-General for all such infor-
mation as the same may from time to time be acquired, and to make re-
ports on or before April 1st preceding said annual meeting.
Adopted by the National Congress held April 30, 1902, at Washing-
ton, D. C.
(Motion carried unanimously.)
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ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Judge Whitehead: I move that we now proceed to the
election of officers.
(Motion carried.)
Mr. Richardson (Ohio) ; I am going to make a solemn
statement. I yield to no man in my admiration of that majestic
gift of oratory which a higher Power has so generously poured
upon every member of this Society. But there is a limit to all
things ; and while it may be a very unpopular motion to make,
I want to move you that the nominating speeches to which we
are about to listen be limited to three minutes.
(Motion carried.)
Colonel Griffith : Mr. President-General, Compatriots :
Within the past three months there has been sent to each of the
officers of this national organization, to each of the Presidents of
the State bodies, a book, and to the Secretary of each Society an
express package of the same for distribution. The book con-
tained extracts showing the work of the Maryland Society during
the last 12 years, and a compilation showing in part the great
record of "The Maryland Line" in the Revolutionary War.
I have received a large number of letters from compatriots in
all sections of the country that assure me the book has been read
with interest, and it is not necessary to refer further to its con-
tents. The Maryland Society has requested me to say to you to-
day that it has waited for 13 years for such recognition of the
great deeds of its heroes in the days of the Revolution as they
and the noble old State has been entitled to, and, feeling that the
time has come, the Society has instructed me to place in nomina-
tion one of its members for the office of President-General.
The nomination has been unsought by him and is the unani-
mous selection of the State Society. His high position in the
business world, his well-known qualities of heart and hand, his
experience as the presiding officer of the Senate of Maryland, all
fit him as the executive of this national body.
Compatriots, you are on the soil from which sprang the bayo-
nets of the Continental Army.
Compatriots, you are at the birthplace of the 400 martyrs of
Long Island, in whose blood was baptized the new-born nation.
Compatriots, you are in the land of the cavaliers, from whose
loins came the heroes of "Peggy Stewart Day." A deed so bold,
done in broad daylight, without disguises, in the presence of the
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Colonial Governor and Council, that it has well been named
"the first great overt act of treason done in the colonies ;" "Either
you go with me and set fire with your own hand to vessel and
cargo or hang before your own door," and as the flames from
vessel and tea arise higher and higher they flash across the skies
to all nations and climes, proclaiming the emancipation of man.
All hail ! Dr. Charles Alexander Warfield, thou great leader of
immortal heroes!
Mr. President-General, I nominate his kinsman, Hon. Edwin
Warfield, for President-General during the ensuing year.
Judge Whitehead: There is a story of the early days of
Kentucky which has been made classic in the literature of this
Republic. One Col. Donald was hunting a coon. He treed one ;
the coon looked down and saw who it was and said : "Colonel, you
need not fire, I will come down." I have learned long since that
when Colonel Griffith takes the floor and makes a proposition at
any convention of the S. A. R., we are in the same condition as
the coon was ; we may as well come down and surrender first as
last.
But I second the nomination of Mr. Warfield, not so much be-
cause I am in that condition, but for two or three other reasons.
First, because the Society of Maryland asks us to put into the
Executive chair of this great Association their noble compatriot,
the Honorable Edwin Warfield. That Society has been first and
foremost in producing patriotic results, in the establishment of
memorials of Revolutionary times, in the erection of monuments,
and in the spread of the principles of true Americanism through-
out their State. My second reason is this : that, though I don't
care much for localities, yet the nomination comes from a locality
which has never received recognition at the hands of these con-
ventions. Maryland is a Southern State, south of Mason and
Dixon's line. It is true that we have had a President-General in
our honored and respected leader, General Breckinridge, but he
really did not represent a Southern community. But my third
and best reason is, because it is Edwin Warfield himself that is in
nomination. (Applause.) Localities, in my opinion, sink to noth-
ingness unless you can accompany with the locality the man that
is fit for the place. That man is Edwin Warfield; a true Ameri-
can ; descended of the best stock of Maryland and of the best
stock of the United States ; a man with a heart as broad and gen-
erous as this great Republic ; a man all alive, and keenly alive,
to true American principles ; a man who has proved by his past
conduct, and by his present position in this Congress, that he
is deserving of our votes here this day for the high office of
President-General of this Society. I beg of you, compatriots, to
give your votes for Edwin Warfield. (Applause.)
Mr. Jones (Pennsylvania) : A few minutes ago, a gentleman
said on this floor that we were all natural orators ; but I prefer
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to read what I have to say in connection with this nomination.
Mr. President : The Pennsylvania delegates desire to make
a statement :
We were instructed to present to this Congress the name of
James Denton Hancock of Franklin, for President-General.
Pittsburg being the logical center of the Pennsylvania State
Society, , it has seemed desirable that for the
prompt transaction of business our principal officers should be
taken from our immediate vicinity, and this is the only reason
why Mr. Hancock is not Pennsylvania's President to-day. Mr.
Hancock was in early life a Pittsburger. He removed to Frank-
lin, where he has grown to the fullest measure of manhood. The
individuality of Pittsburgers is lost in the immense interests of
our city; while Franklin has not grown up to the stature of Mr.
Hancock. If it were otherwise the headquarters of our Society
would not be at Pittsburg.
Mr. Hancock is the personal friend and adviser of each of our
members ; is our representative in our National Council, where
his ability and fitness is well known.
Ever since we received our instructions in February last we
have been trying to persuade Mr. Hancock to permit us to present
his name to you, but he has finally refused, and at his personal re-
quest he makes way for the candidacy of Hon. Edwin Warfield
of Maryland, which is seconded by Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bates (Michigan) : I rise to support the nomination of
Mr. Edwin Warfield as President-General of this Society. It
comes with a special appropriateness under the circumstances be-
cause, if the people of Michigan have a worthy descendant of
the brave young patriot that led the tea party in Boston, and we
come to Maryland as a friend of the ancestor of Mr. Warfield
who went to the tea party of the 19th of October, 1774, and said
to the Captain of the Peggy Stuart : "You must either burn your
ship or you will sling from the mainyards.'' And it is this spirit
of patriotism which is so identified in the life and character of
Mr. Warfield that it appeals to us with special force ; and it is
with the greatest pleasure that I support his nomination.
Mr. C. W. Haskins (New York) : I now move that the
nominations for President-General be closed, and that the Secre-
tary-General be instructed to cast a ballot for the Society electing
Edwin Warfield as President-General for the ensuing year.
President-General Logan : Your motion is not in order at
present. Are there any more nominations to be made?
Hon. Cornelius Pugsley (New York) : In behalf of the
Empire State Society, I have great pleasure in seconding the
nomination of the Hon. Edwin Warfield of Maryland. (Ap-
plause.) New York rejoices in rallying around "Maryland, My
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Maryland," and especially is this so when Maryland presents the
name of the Hon. Edward Warfield. To grasp his hand, to look
upon his face, to know the generous impulses of the man, is to
be brought into touch with one who is every inch a man, and a
man which this Society may well delight to honor. The delegates
from the Empire State Society will have great pleasure in cast-
ing their vote for our worthy compatriot, Hon. Edwin Warfield,
of Maryland.
General Breckinridge: The President-General has exactly
hit the key that I am here to strike. They say that I am not a
representative of the South ; but if God knows my heart, I am a
representative of the patriots of America, and if the South needs
a better representative than I am, I thank God and thank you
that you have the opportunity to choose him to-day. A nobler
man, a finer champion, has not walked in the walks of your So-
ciety than the man you are now about to select; and as you are
upholding a set of institutions which are inconceivable to the
Asiatic, which are the very flower of all that has gone before,
among all the civilized nations of the world, which require a man
of such breadth as you have heard, of such nobility as you know,
I, from the Orient, come here and say : God bless you in choosing
such a man ; you can find no better.
Mr. Trumbull : I have no speech to make to you, gentlemen,
but before this vote is taken I simply wish to say a word for the
State of Connecticut ; that we are heartily in sympathy with this
nomination and shall take great pleasure in casting our vote for
the candidate who has been proposed to you — Hon. Edwin War-
field.
Mr. Lewis (Virginia) : It is not my purpose to make a speech
or to pronounce a eulogy, but in one word to voice the sentiment
of the Virginia Chapter of the S. A. R., as well as to carry out the
behest of my own heart, in cordially seconding the nomination
of Edwin Warfield, of Maryland. The States of Maryland and
Virginia are, and have always been, very close together ; not alone
territorially, but the bonds of affection which unite those two
States are very strong. I wouM not be understood, however,
compatriots, to say that they are stronger than the bonds which
unite Virginia and Massachusetts and Pennsylvania or any other
of her sister States (Applause) ; but the Hon. Edwin Warfield is
the choice of the Virginia Chapter of the S. A. R. for this high
honor, because we believe that he is highly qualified for it and
that he will adorn the place. (Applause.)
General Anderson : In behalf of the distant Society which
I represent, so that it may have a more national appearance, I
wish to second the nomination of Compatriot Warfield. I have
another purpose in doing so, and I state it with great pleasure.
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It is important to bring the South into line as far as we can. Of
course, it is in line with us now, but we want our membership to be
increased there, and I don't know anyone who can facilitate this
better than the Hon. Edwin Warfield. Therefore I take great
pleasure, Mr. President-General, in seconding this nomination.
General Appleton : I trust that the motion of Compatriot
Haskins will prevail at the proper time ; and that is now.
Mr. Bunker: It will take a very short time for me to say
what I have to say. California, which originated this order, is
for Mr. Warfield.
A Delegate : Colorado casts her vote for Warfield.
Mr. Miller (Illinois) : Illinois takes great pleasure in voting
as a unit for Mr. Warfield as President-General of this Society.
A Delegate: Wisconsin is also a unit for Mr. Warfield.
Mr. Palmer : Montana casts her ballot for Warfield.
President-General Logan : If there are no more speeches to
be made, the motion of Compatriot Haskins is in order; that the
Secretary be directed to cast one ballot for Edwin Warfield as
President-General of this Societv.
(Motion carried unanimously.)
Mr. Bates (Michigan) : I move that a committee of three be
appointed to find Mr. Warfield and escort him to this Congress.
(Motion carried.)
President-General Logan : I appoint on that Committee
Judge Whitehead, Judge Goode, and General Appleton.
Mr. Warfield ascends the platform accompanied by the Com-
mittee.
President-General Logan : I have the honor of introducing
to you the President-General of the S. A. R., Edwin Warfield of
Maryland. (Loud applause and three cheers.)
Edwin Warfield : Compatriots, you have conferred upon me
one of the greatest honors that can come to an American citizen.
The Presidency of this Society,* composed as it is of over 10,000
descendants of the men who won our freedom from British rule,
should satisfy the proudest ambition.
I interpret my selection for this high position as a recognition
and approval of what the Maryland Society has done to perpetu-
ate the memory of our Revolutionary sires and of Maryland's
services in the cause of liberty.
I am but the medium through which you convey to our people
your appreciation of the fortitude of our patriot statesman and
the valor of our soldiers who composed the "Old Maryland Line,"
''the bayonets of the Revolutionary Army."
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We Mary landers are proud of the splendid record made by our
soldiers and citizens in that great struggle for independence.
As President of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, on behalf of our people and personally, I
thank you for this evidence of your good will and of your interest
in the glorious story of our grand old Commonwealth, one of the
original 13 States.
To you, my compatriots, who have so generously commended
me to-day, I extend my deep gratitude. I shall ever cherish your
indorsement.
To fill the chair once occupied by the brilliant Porter, the force-
ful Murphy, the soldiery Breckinridge and you, General Logan,
places me in a trying position. You and your predecessors meas-
ured up to the fullest expectations of us all, and especially have
you well met every demand and duty. By your uniform courtesy
and liberality you have greatly advanced the interests of our
Society and the cause of patriotism, while by your ability and
zeal you have commanded our admiration.
If I shall in the performance of my duties win and deserve half
the praise that you have received and merited I shall be content.
Walter S. Logan : The Constitution of this Society says that
the general offices shall hold office until their successors have
been elected. My successor having been elected, I take great
pleasure in presenting to you, Mr. President-General, the gavel of
office. You have my best wishes for success in your administra-
tion; and whatever I can do to make that success even greater is
at your service.
Compatriots, I thank you from my heart for the cordial and
enthusiastic support which you have given me during the year
I have held the office of President-General.
Three cheers were given for the retiring President-General.
Judge Whitehead: The next business in order is the nomin-
ations for Vice-Presidents-General. I hope that I may be per-
mitted to put in nomination a member of our Society of New
Jersey. We delight to honor young men, and this gentleman
whom I am about to name has proved himself to be worthy of
any honor to which his own Society may invite him. He is a
young man who has shown himself, during the years that he has
been a member of our Society, active in the establishment of
everything that can conduce to its interest and advantage. I
have the honor to nominate as one of the Vice-Presidents of this
Society Mr. Andrew W. Bray, of New Jersey.
Judge Goode: As a delegate from the Virginia Society, I rise
for the purpose of placing in nomination for the office of Vice-
President-General, Mr. Noble D. Larner, of this City of Wash-
ington. (Applause.) I am one of those who believe the honors
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of the Society should be bestowed upon those who have borne
the heat and burden of the day (Applause) ; who have contributed
their time and their services to promote the grand objects of our
patriotic organization. Mr. Larner has been identified with the
D. C. Society ever since its organization; he has rendered most
valuable and conspicuous services ; he has represented it more
than once in the National Congress. In February, 1901, he was
elected its President; in February, 1902, he was re-elected. He
is a man of high integrity of character; he has won the white
flower of a blameless life; he enjoys to an unlimited extent the
confidence and esteem of the community in which he lives. In a
word, my compatriots, he measures up fully to the Jeffersonian
standard of honesty, capacity and fidelity. Like myself, he has
passed beyond the summit of the hill of life, and has descended
into the vale. I submit to you, my compatriots, that it would
be a fitting tribute to his work to crown his long and honorable
career with this high distinction. (Applause.)
Judge. Hancock: I am here to nominate a gentleman from
Pennsylvania to the high office of Vice-President of this Society.
Many of you will remember that only a year ago you were at
Pittsburg. You remember that that Society was at that time but
small. Like my friend, Judge Goode, I believe that the honors
should go to those who have borne the brunt of the battle. When
it was proposed to ask this Congress to meet in our great Western
city, I confess that I was not in favor of it. But, my friends, Col.
Albert J. Logan carried it through our Society and finally came
to the National Society in New York and carried it through there.
The effect was — well, I don't wish to flatter my own Society as to
what they did there — but the effect of his work at that time has
been that the Pennsylvania Society, of which he was President,
and which had but 125 members at that time, to-day has over 360
members. (Applause.) Then, we had no representation in the
Eastern part of the State. In Philadelphia we now have a thriv-
ing chapter ; and all through the West and center of the State this
great Society is making itself felt. This man has always been
generous. Last year, without my knowledge, he presented my
name to this Society, and you did me the honor to elect me as
Vice-President of the Society ; and now I have the honor of nom-
inating the man to whom the office really belonged at that time.
I place in nomination the name of Colonel Albert J. Logan.
Mr. Trumbull : Connecticut lacked but one thing in the days
of the Revolution, and that was oratory ; and our Society being
hereditary, I have inherited no gift of oratory. But it gives me
great pleasure on this occasion to place in nomination for one of
your Vice-Presidents-General a gentleman with whom I have
been associated in our Society during the fourteen years of its
existence ; whom I know to be active in all that the Society has
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done in good and patriotic work, and the Society in which it has
actually achieved. I shall not, therefore, build a Chinese wall of
oratory around my little State of Connecticut, nor shall I occupy
even the three minutes allotted to me in a eulogy upon the gentle-
man whom I propose to nominate. There will be sufficient eulogy
for him when his associates become acquainted with him. In the
words of the poet, I can simply say :
"None know him but to love him,
None name him but to praise."
I have the pleasure of placing in nomination Morris W. Beards-
ley, of Bridgeport, Conn.
Mr. Handy (Del.): The Society to-day has fittingly and
properly recognized in the person of the President-General-elect
the services of the old Maryland Line; and wherever in the
Revolutionary War the Maryland Line fixed its bayonets and
charged, I believe without exception throughout the record of
the Revolutionary War, where a bayonet charge is made by the
old Maryland Line, marching with them step by step was a regi-
ment of Delaware Continental troops, and in every report of the
battle you will see something complimentary of the "Maryland
Line and the brave Delawares," as the reports always say. (Ap-
plause.) That thing went so far that Kirkwood, with his Dela-
wares, who marched to the South, left home with a thousand
bayonets, shed blood on every battlefield, met the brunt of every
fight, and came back at the close of the war with less than one
hundred men of the thousand. Delaware literally gave a regi-
ment to fight and to die almost to the last man. (Applause.)
She is so small in territory — although Delaware and Texas to-
gether are larger than any other two States of the Union — Dela-
ware by herself is so small in territory that this unexampled hero-
ism is not known all over the country. Now, little Delaware,
when the Maryland Line marches on to victory in this Society
to-day in the person of the President-General, brave little Dela-
ware should walk alongside her with a candidate for the Vice-
President-General. (Applause.) We marched with your State
always in the Revolutionary War; and now, sir, in the day of
your triumph, we will not desert you; we want to be with you
to-day. So, unanimously, the Delaware Society has instructed
me to nominate Howard DeHaven Ross, of our Society, for
Vice-President-General.
Delaware, that used to produce the heroes that the country
doesn't know about, in modern times has produced the delicious
peach, that everybody knows about. Howard DeHaven Ross is
the best example of a Delaware peach that we have in this Society.
He has claims on this Society; he has been for two years the
Chairman of the committee which has had charge of the list of
all of the members of this Society, the National Register — I
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was about to say Herd Book, but I knew that was not right. Our
own Society has been growing in the last two years ; we have in-
creased one hundred per cent. We always prefer to talk in per-
centages in our State instead of actual numbers. Some of you
people may have a larger number; but who has a greater per-
centage of increase? We have put up a beautiful monument in
our State at Cooch's Bridge, largely through the patriotic efforts
of Mr. Ross. We claim that at Cooch's Bridge the old and
beautiful flag, the Star Spangled Banner, was first unfurled to the
baptism of fire, and that the first drop of blood that an American
soldier ever shed beneath that flag was shed at Cooch's Bridge
in the State of Delaware. So, we have put up a monument there
to commemorate that event. We are not altogether able to prove,
perhaps, that that was the spot, but the monument is there.
(Laughter.) And if you can prove that it was anywhere else
you can come and get the monument and take it off (laughter; ;
but until some other spot is found for the first unfurling of the
flag, Cooch's Bridge is the spot, and Howard DeHaven Ross has
his monument there to mark it out. You have five different places
for which nominations are in order. We do not take the same
attitude in regard to this position that we take in Delaware with
regard to some officers. We do not intend to stand here and say
that "this must be Howard DeHaven Ross, or else there shall be no
Vice-Presidents elected at all. By giving your vote for Mr. Ross
you will help things along and you will get a young man of
energy, of activity, a young man who will be a fit assistant to our
magnificent new President-General. Why do I need to argue any
longer? Let us make his election unanimous; that is all that
Delaware asks.
Mr. Bates (Mich.) : We are all very much surprised to
know that Delaware has been consorting with the State of Texas ;
we had supposed that her affiliations were nearer home, and I
want to present to you a distinguished gentleman from the great
Empire State near her. Possibly some of the influence that the
distinguished gentleman from Delaware has been extending to us
at this time may come over into the State of New York. You
have in the past sought one of her most distinguished sons as
your President-General. It is very appropriate that this great
State and the Society that represents it shall be also represented
among your national officers. We have with us to-day such a
man. He holds an honorable seat in the National House of
Representatives, from one of the most respectable and influen-
tial districts in the country. He has guarded your finances in
the past, and he will worthily represent you as one of your
worthy Vice-Presidents-General. It gives me the greatest pleas-
ure to nominate for this position Hon. Cornelius Pugsley.
Nomination seconded.
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Mr. Snow (111.) : We have with us from Illinois a mem-
ber who has done a good deal to increase our Society. This gen-
tleman has given us a great deal of his time and thought in
building up our Society, and has been the Secretary-General for
the past four years. I take pleasure in nominating for this
office Captain Samuel Eberly Gross.
Mr. Henry W. Joslin : The old, old story, when anything
.s said about Rhode Island, is that she is the smallest State in
the Union; and we are so used to that now that we don't find
any fault when you say it. But little though we are, don't
we come down to this Congress trying to do our part and do it
worthily in the interest of this association? No other Society
has greater interest in the work than the State of Rhode Island.
Little though she be, her members represent those that shed
their blood from Boston to the farther South. We point to our
Grant, second only to Washington; to Hopkins and Hitchcock.
Upon that record, which we will let be of the past, there only
remains to us the patriotism that has been incorporated in our
hearts. That patriotism we find burning in every heart of every
single member of our association. Now, we simply come here,
as I said before, to present to you a name for your consideration,
and when we do that we present a man whose record will be
known to you; but we regret that he is not here to-day to show
for himself. We propose to present him here, and we wish to
urge his election. I name to you as the representative from Rhode
Island Ex-Governor Charles Warren Lippitt, a man to whatever
active work he engages in gives his whole heart. You can de-
pend upon it that little Rhode Island will send, if you elect him,
a stronger support to the able President-General whom you have
elected, in proportion, than any of the larger States can send. I
ask your suffrages, in the name and in behalf of the State of
Rhode Island, for the name of Ex-Governor Charles Warren
Lippitt, as one of the Vice-Presidents-General of the National So-
ciety.
Mr. Richardson (Ohio) : It may seem to you singular that
Ohio has no candidate either for the Presidency or for the
Vice-Presidency of this Society. As I have not been instructed,
and have no inclination to make an original nomination of any
one for either of these offices, I wish to throw myself upon your
mercy and to second the nomination of two men who have been
named. Give me double time, because I may not get another
chance on this floor.
I think we should come a little to the practical side of this
question. These four gentlemen, with one exception, we have
named from all along the Atlantic Seaboard ; and they are dis-
tinguished men, men of worth, men whom it would be an honor
for this Society to place in these offices. But we have no place
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for thirteen Vice-Presidents-General under our Constitution.
We can have but five, and looking over the names that have been
placed in nomination here, I think of two; one from the little
State of Rhode Island (applause), one of the finest, cleanest, most
magnificent men that that little State holds, Charles Warren
Lippitt ; every inch a gentleman ; every inch a patriot ; and every
inch devoted to the welfare of this Society. I wish to second the
nomination of Charles Warren Lippitt.
Then, if you will bear with me, I wish to call your attention to
the Prairie State of the West. Captain Samuel Eberly Gross has
been placed in nomination here. He is a man who deserves well
of this Society ; he has given of his time and money, and given of
his great influence in the West, to increase and enlarge the Society
there. You, of the Eastern States, can have, from his connec-
tion with you as Secretary-General of the National Society, but
a very small conception of the influence of Captain Gross beyond
the Mississippi. I therefore take pleasure in seconding the nom-
ination of Captain Samuel Eberly Gross. I hope these two men
will certainly be placed upon that list of Vice-Presidents-General.
Mr. Underwood (Wis.) : The State that I have the honor
to represent has no son of her own that she wishes to bring
forward for any position in your gift ; but she looks with friendly
and affectionate eyes just south of her, to the great common-
wealth of Illinois, and it gives me pleasure to state, not only
as the unanimous voice of my delegation, but as the voice of
the Wisconsin Society, that at our last meeting, shortly be-
fore I came to this city, we had but one name to present, and that
was the name of Captain Samuel Eberly Gross, as Vice-President.
We know what Mr. Gross has done ; we all know what he has
done as Secretary-General ; and the only hesitation in my own
Society, in bringing forward his name, was that he had done
so well in that office and so satisfactorily we fain would not
let him go, and we felt it due to say to him : "Friend, come
up higher." We hated to miss him from the position he has
so ably filled. In connection with this nomination, I would like
also to couple a motion that the thanks of the association be ex-
tended to Captain Gross for his efficient and satisfactory service
as Secretary-General of this Society.
President-General Warfield : Your motion is out of order.
Mr. Underwood : Then Wisconsin simply presents his name.
Judge Hancock : I don't wish to appear before you too often,
I know that one of the most fatal errors a man can make is to
talk too much, but I do wish to say a few words here. Most of
the Vice-Presidents, or at least some of the Vice-Presidents of
the past year, have declined to be candidates this year. Among
those who are most respected, a man that we would like to have
fill that position perpetually, if it could be, was my friend Judge
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Whitehead. He is the father, not only of the New Jersey Society
of the S. A. R., but he is a father in our midst. He has
presented to you one of his sons, a man who has been brought up
by him in his own Society ; he has recommended him, and in him
we are likely to have the wise counsels, likely to have the efficient
work of our dear old friend, and our dear old officer in this
Society, the Hon Judge Whitehead. I have pleasure, therefore,
in seconding the nomination of Mr. Bray as one of the Vice-
Presidents of this Society.
Mr. Chandler: I rise to second the nomination of Judge
Beardsley, of Connecticut, as one of the Vice-Presidents; and
in doing so I wish to say that the Connecticut delegation ex-
pected to have presented the name of Judge Hubbard L. Hotch-
kiss as one of the Vice-Presidents. He is our very efficient
Registrar. His name was presented last year by Greeley, but he
didn't land him. Since coming here, I have learned that Judge
Hotchkiss expects to be in Europe more or less of the time;
therefore I take great pleasure in presenting the name of Judge
Beardsley, of Connecticut. We feel that he will be a credit to
this Society, and we know that he will be a credit and an honor
to our own Society, which you will remember stands third in
point of membership ; first Massachusetts, then New York, and
then Connecticut. We feel he is a worthy successor of General
Greeley, our Connecticut Vice-President who was on the Board
two years ago. I hope the delegates of this convention will cast
their votes for Judge Beardsley.
Mr. Warren (N. Y.) : As a member of the Empire State
Society, I desire to say that she has about thirteen hundred mem-
bers. Mr. Logan is from Connecticut; I am from Connecticut
myself; and it gives me great pleasure to second the nomination
of Judge Morris P. Beardsley, of Bridgeport, Conn.
General Appleton : I rise to second the nomination of our
present Treasurer-General, who has been put in nomination,
the Hon. Cornelius Pugsley, of New York. He has served us
well and faithfully in every respect; he has been honored in a
district which might have been doubtful in some way by being
elevated to the Congress of the United States. I think he will
honor us decidedly if we make him one of our Vice-Presidents.
Mr. Walter S. Logan : New York is a very modest State ;
but when it has Cornelius Pugsley in it, it cannot afford to be too
modest. Before we make him President of the United States, we
intend to make him President-General of the S. A. R. some
years hence. But you have had some unfortunate experience
in electing a President- General from New York State who
hadn't previously had any training in the office of Vice-President-
General. When Pugsley comes to be President-General we want
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him to have a few years' experience as Vice-President-General,
so that he may be better fitted for the position than the recent
gentleman who tried to do his duty but failed. (Cries of No,
No. He's all right.) New York presents the name of Cornelius
A. Pugsley ; not only because of his magnificent abilities ; not only
because of the high position which he now holds; not only be-
cause he will be an honor to the Society ; but because New York
likes him and loves him. I am a little embarrassed when I see
the list of Vice-Presidents nominated. You have already among
the nominations previously made a namesake of mine and a class-
mate of mine; the latter Judge Beardsley, of Connecticut. I do
not ask you to neglect the namesake or the classmate, but I do ask
you to elect Pugsley of New York.
Mr. Stockett: We have always elected the Vice-Presidents-
General, or one of them, from the Societies which have enter-
tained us during these conventions. It therefore gives me pleas-
ure to second the nomination of Mr. Noble D. Larner, of Wash-
ington, D. C.
Judge Whitehead : I should do violence to my own feelings
of love and affection for the Delaware Society if I were not to
second the nomination of Mr. Howard DeHaven Ross. I know
that young man; I have known him for several years; I know
something about his work in the Society which he so honorably
represents on the floor of this convention. No mistake can be
made in putting him into this position of Vice-President-General.
There are some gentlemen, one gentleman particularly, in this
convention who have the power of taking threshed wheat and
adding something new to it. It is our good firend Goode, of
Virginia ; but our "Handy" friend from Delaware has so ably
presented the name of Mr. Ross from that magnificent State to
this convention, has said so much about him, that it is almost
impossible for me to find words to say what I would like to say
about Mr. Ross. But I hope that he may receive a vote from this
convention that will place him in the office of Vice-President.
Allow me to say another word about our New Jersey candi-
date. New Jersey, during the Revolution, was harassed from
one end to the other ; its farmers were pillaged ; their crops were
taken off; their matrons and maidens were outraged; and even-
indignity that could be put upon human nature was inflicted in
that State of New Jersey. Mr. Bray had three representatives of
his family in the Revolution, the grandfather, the father and the
son; three men from the same family through whom he claims
eligibility as a member of the New Jersey Society. Give us your
vote for him, if you please.
General Anderson : Without any solicitation whatever, and
with but a very slight personal acquaintance, I wish to second the
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nomination of a gentleman whom I have watched as a member of
this Society, and with whose excellent work I am familiar. I
am altogether impartial in the matter; I have not been solicited
in any way to second this nomination, but I want to call your at-
tention to the name of Compatriot Noble D. Larner, of the District
of Columbia. I don't think we should forget him on this oc-
casion.
Colonel Griffith : May I just say one word to General An-
derson? We of the old people have never yet failed to elect a
Vice-President-General from the place where this Congress met
and from those by whom we were entertained.
Mr. Barnard (Md.) : I desire to second the nomination of
the other Logan — Colonel Logan — and that of our distinguished
compatriot, Captain Samuel Eberly Gross. In addition to being
the son of a military sire, he himself is a military man, having
raised a troop of infantry in the State of Pennsylvania; and I
have no doubt that if he had been here at the time of the Revolu-
tion he would have raised a similar arm. He has served us long
and faithfully as Secretary-General of this distinguished body, and
I think it is a fitting tribute to his generous work in the past that
we make him a Vice-President General.
General Breckinridge: I fancy that all of us are conscious
that the nominees for the Vice-Presidency are such men who
illustrate our life and our character as well as any set of men
could. I would like to follow in the steps of our constant leader,
the President of the New Jersey Society, to say some words about
those whose work I have seen, and know how perfect it is. I
suppose it is impossible for every member of this Society to know
how much has been done in the secret recesses of the Executive
Chambers ; but when such men as Pugsley have brought our
finances into the condition that they are in now, and when such a
man as Ross has done the preliminary part of the work which
has been so perfectly finished by the last administration — in fact,
it could not have been done at all if it had not been that President-
General Logan took it up all alone and carried it through like a
giant through the water — and when Mr. Gross, who has been
spending money out of his own pocket year after year, and spend-
ing his time and energies in the work of this Society, and a cluster
grapes like that, each one enriched with the juice of the finest
labor and patriotism, let us go through this thing quickly and get
the best of them, and go no further. I move that the nomina-
tions now close, and that the five men getting the highest number
of votes be declared elected.
The motion was duly seconded and carried.
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The following names were placed in nomination' for the office*
of Vice-President :
Andrew W. Bray, New Jersey.
Colonel Albert J. Logan, Pennsylvania.
Judge Morris B. Beardsley, Connecticut.
Howard DeHaven Ross, Delaware.
Honorable Cornelius A. Pugsley, New York.
Captain Samuel Eberly Gross, Illinois.
Honorable Charles Warren Lippitt, Rhode Island.
Noble D. Larner, District of Columbia.
Judge Whitehead, New Jersey.
Delegate from the State of Washington : Article V. re-
fers to the conditions governing the election of the National So-
ciety. (Reads Article V.) I am the only delegate representing
the State of Washington, and would like to inquire whether I am
entitled to the full five votes or only to one vote.
President-General Warfield : I am of the opinion that you
vote not by States ; that no delegation is authorized to cast a full
vote; that the vote is only to be taken by delegates present. If
the delegations fail to fill the vacancies under the authority that
they have, they can only cast the number of votes that they have
present.
Mr. Chandler : I move that five tellers be appointed.
President-General Warfield: I appoint the following
gentlemen as tellers : Mr. Chandler, Mr. Handy, Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Joslin, General Appleton.
The tellers were instructed to retire to count the votes.
Colonel Griffith : In the absence of the tellers who are
counting the votes, I move that we proceed to the election of the
Secretary-General.
President-General Warfield : The nominations for Sec-
retary-General are now in order.
Judge Whitehead: In 1893, at Chicago, in casting around
for a Secretary-General, the office of which was then vacant, my
thought went to that man who stands perhaps the first among us
now, Hon. Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey, as a proper person
to fill that position. I nominated him and he was elected, and
you all know the manner in which he performed the duties of
that position. No man ever did more for the service of any in-
stitution than did Franklin Murphy for the S. A. R. He was
ever ready at any moment of time to respond to any call that
might be made upon him. He was succeeded by Captain Eberly
Gross. We propose to promote Captain Gross to the ofixe of
Vice-President, and we now take the liberty of proposing the
gentleman who, I think, is a worthy successor of Captain Samuel
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Eberly Gross and Franklin Murphy. He has been in charge
of the finances of the Society for several years, being the prede-
cessor of the gentleman who has filled that office so worthily for
the last few years. He comes from the Empire State Society ; he
comes from first rate Revolutionary stock; he is a man whom we
have tried, a man of great probity, a man of intelligence, a man
of great energy and perseverance, and a man of enthusiasm, whose
heart is filled to overflowing, and a man of enthusiasm, whose
heart is filled to overflowing with the principles of true American-
ism. (Applause.) I nominate Charles Waldo Haskins for the
office of Secretary-General.
Mr. Richardson (Ohio) : A few years ago, and for quite a
period, occupying a very prominent position in the affairs of this
State and the nation was a man who was known as the tall Syca-
more of the Wabash. It gives me great pleasure to know another
tall man, and to second the nomination of the tall Sycamore of the
Hudson, Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins, for Secretary-General of
this Society.
Walter Seth Logan : The difficulty with my New York
candidates is that the other States steal them away from me. I
am now here to second the nomination of Charley Haskins — for
that is what we know him by in New York. Mr. Haskins has
already served the National Society as one of its most hard-
working officers for many years. He occupied the office of
Treasurer-General when I first knew anything about this Society,
and I think he kept it until a few years ago, when he gave place
to Mr. Pugsley.
We, in New York, believe in Haskins. I know something
about the New York Society and the work they are doing, and
I know that there is no man doing better work for the Sons of
the American Revolution in our State than Charles Waldo Has-
kins. I believe that there is no man who has done better work
for the National Society, or who will do better work for it when
you elect him Secretary-General, than Charles Waldo Haskins.
Captain Gross : I would like to second the nomination of Mr.
Haskins most earnestly. I have held the office four years, and
wanted to renounce my duties on finding a good man as suc-
cessor ; and this is the first time I have been ready to retire when
a competent candidate offered himself. In Mr. Haskins I think
we have a man who has the disposition and the talent to fill the
position.
Mr. Woodman (Del.) : I appear before you to-day probably
as the only person attending this Congress who was a charter
member; one of those who met in old Fraunce's Tavern in 1889
and organized the National Society of the S. A. R. And as I am
now past the three-score-and-ten mark, probably this is the last
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time that I shall ever meet with you ; but I tell you it does my
heart good to look back and see the few — some thirteen or four-
teen there — most of whom have gone ; to see the growth of this
Society ; to see where you are to-day ; why, my heart is more than
full. I am proud of the fact that I was one of the charter mem-
bers and had the honor of being one of the Vice-Presidents-Gen-
eral for Delaware for a number of years. I am heartily in favor of
Mr. Haskins for Secretary-General.
Col. Chaille-Long (Paris) : It gives me great pleasure to
endorse the nomination of Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins. It
seems to me particularly fitting that I should say that I have
known him for many years, and had the privilege of inducing
him to become a member of the Society in New York. I hope
you will elect him.
Rev. Dr. Clarke: I move that the Secretary cast the unani-
mous vote of this Congress for Charles Waldo Haskins.
Motion carried and the Secretary was instructed to cast the
ballot for Mr. Haskins.
President-General Warfield: I congratulate the Society
and Mr. Haskins and ask Mr. Haskins to step to the platform.
Secretary-General Haskins : Mr. President-General and
compatriots, I am really very much embarrassed at this ovation,
and at the good things that have been said about me. I am
not altogether used to them. Our President-General is perhaps
not so much embarrassed, nor Mr. Logan, nor the others, who
are used to it; I am not. I have been a worker in the Sons of
the American Revolution, and I am glad to work for that So-
ciety ; it is a labor of love. I think that when we have a motive,
when we feel that we have something to work for, our work will
be to the benefit of the country. I am glad that my services for
the Society, modest as they have been, are commended by our
electing me to this office ; and I feel honored, and will do the best
I can to be a worthy successor, as far as my capacity will allow
me, to Governor Franklin Murphy and Captain Samuel Eberly
Gross.
Governor Murphy is one of the few wise workers who set us
our standard of efficiency. It is said that he who does twelve
men's work has a right to make twelve men's mistakes ; but men
like Governor Murphy do the work and the rest of us make —
well, we make an honest effort, and console ourselves with re-
membering that we did the best we knew how.
I am glad, not only to be a successor to Governor Murphy,
but to have been also nominated by the same honorable com-
patriot who first named him for this office. Judge Whitehead is
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very properly called the dean of the S. A. R. ; well does he sus-
tain the character of an educator in patriotism.
And speaking of deans and of education in patriotism, I shall
esteem it an honor, compatriots, to assist in this work you have
now taken in hand of educating our naturalized citizens, and the
unnaturalized foreign element, in the fundamental principles of
liberty on which our Republic is built. I think that the motion
which prevailed to-day to give the Society this live issue is
very pertinent; it is something that I have been in favor of for
years, and I am very glad to be Secretary of the Society when
this is before us. I shall be glad to help every State, and every
member of this Society in every State, by the hardest work I
can give to it, to further this patriotic movement to inculcate
patriotism in the hearts of the people of this country. Gentle-
men, I shall serve you to the best of my ability; and if, at the
end of the year, I can command your thanks, it is all the reward
I shall ask.
Mr. Sterns (Mass.) : It becomes my pleasant and cheer-
ful duty to be called upon to nominate a gentleman for the office
of Treasurer-General ; one who bears a historic name ; one whose
name is treasured by every loyal compatriot of this organization.
He comes from a State that has always been loyal to its country ;
he comes from a State that furnished more than 100,000 men
for the battlefields and the naval history of the Revolution. He
comes from the State that furnished more than 21,000 men in
the War of 1812; which, however, was not a very popular war in
Massachusetts. He is a man in his demeanor; he is a man that
never seeks an office ; the office seeks the man. It gives me great
pleasure to nominate for the office of Treasurer-General Nathan
Warren, of Massachusetts.
General Joseph C. Breckinridge : I second that nomination
and move that the unanimous ballot of the Society be cast
therefor, and the nominations be closed.
Motion carried unanimously.
President-General Warfield : Compatriots, I take pleasure
in introducing to you Mr. Nathan Warren, of Massachusetts.
Treasurer-General Warren : One of the pleasantest feat-
ures of this election is that it comes to me as so much of a
surprise. It is very gratifying to me. I have taken from its
earliest formation a great deal of interest in the Massachu-
setts Society. Among the greatest pleasures, I may say, has
been the attendance at these Congresses, where I have noticed
the affectionate friendship, the spirit of broad patriotism, which
has always been prominent in our organization and through our
meetings. And it is a great pleasure to be commended, as I
have been by you, to follow in the footsteps of my friend, whom
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I have known for many years, Mr. Pugsley. I can assure you
that I shall try to keep up the honor of Massachusetts and the
honor of the Society, and will see that the funds are properly
turned over at the close of my administration. (Laughter.)
President-General Warfield: The next order of business
is the election of Registrar-General.
Mr. Walter S. Logan : This is not the first time I have
stood here representing the District of Columbia in asking you
to elect Mr. A. Howard Clark Registrar-General. (Applause.)
If I have had any popularity among the Sons of the American
Revolution, I attributed it to the fact that I have continued year
after year to name A. Howard Clark. I wish to continue that
popularitv. Mr. Clark is one of the men that were not dupli-
cated when the world was made. The position which he fills is
so much more laborious, and much more difficult, and re-
quires so much greater genius, than the position of President-
General, that really the Registrar-General ought to stand at
the head of the ticket. Most any of us — like Warfield and my-
self— can make an acceptable President-General; but there is
only one man in the United States that I know of who can
make an acceptable Registrar-General ; and that is A. Howard
Clark. I move his nomination.
Col. Griffith : I desire to second the motion, for this
reason. I am representing Massachusetts now. (Laughter.) In
the hands of dear old Registrar-General Clark is the genealogy
and the record of every one of you throughout the United
States. A more faithful officer, a more competent one we have
never had since the organization of this Society. I second the
motion.
Mr. Warren (N. Y.) : It gives me great pleasure to sec-
ond the nomination of A. Howard Clark, and I ask the Secre-
tary to cast a ballot unanimously electing Mr. Clark as Regis-
trar-General.
Motion carried unanimously.
Registrar-General Clark: Were I a speechmaker I might
talk here for half an hour; but since I am not, I can do nothing
more than to thank you most heartily and sincerely for my
election to this high office — for the eleventh time. I have tried
to do my duty; it has been difficult at times, but the manner in
which the State officers have always supported me has relieved
mi very much, and I want to thank those State officers for what
they have done. I want to thank the Congress for the great
honor that I have received at its hands to-day.
President-General Warfield: We now come to the office
of Historian-General.
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Hon. Cornelius Pugsley : From the great State of Michigan
and from the beautiful city of trees come to the S. A. R. men
with the progressive ideas of the Middle West. It has been such
men that this Congress delights to honor; and in behalf of the
Empire State Society it gives me great pleasure to place in
nomination a man for the office of Historian-General; a man
who has endeared himself to us by those qualities that go to
make the ideal man; a man who, in a report read from this
platform a day or two ago, reveals the fact that we have the
right man in the right place. (Applause.) With a legal mind,
he grasps the essential facts that should be considered, and
puts them before us eloquently and forcibly. It gives me the
greatest pleasure to put in nomination for the office of Historian-
General our worthy compatriot from the City of Detroit, Mr.
Geo. W. Bates.
Mr. Gregory (Pa.) : Pennsylvania desires unanimously
to second that nomination, and I move that the Secretary cast
the ballot for Mr. Bates as Historian-General for the ensuing
year.
Motion carried.
Historian-General Bates : Coming from the hands of the
Vice-President-General of this Society, this is the most gratify-
ing introduction that I could receive. It is especially gratifying
to know that my services in the past have met with your fullest
approval. Perhaps many of you know — some of you do know —
that my natural inclination is in the line of the historical, and
that this office offers to me more grateful service than any other
office in the hands of this Congress. In the past there has not
been that systematic effort made to collect and compile and put
in some accessible form the historical matter connected with the
history of these societies ; and it has occurred to me that this
can be done by having the different State societies report to the
Historian-General the matters of historic interest pertaining to
the Revolution. That is the work I have laid out for myself
for many years. I bespeak your kindly consideration in the
progress of this work, and at the same time thank you for this
high honor.
President-General Warfield: Nominations for the office
of Chaplain-General are now in order.
Col. Logan : Two years ago, in New York, you honored
Pennsylvania by electing for your Chaplain-General one of our
compatriots. One year ago you again complimented us by con-
tinuing him in office, thereby signifying that he had been a faith-
ful servant. I am here to-day, gentlemen, representing our pres-
ent Chaplain-General, who has been called away by a telegram
received a short while ago, that prevented him from being pres-
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ent and speaking to you now. Chaplain-General Warfield de-
sired me to nominate for the position of Chaplain-General of
the National Society Rev. Rufus W. Clark, of Michigan. (Ap-
plause.) There is nothing more for me to say, but that every-
body knows and everybody loves Rufus W. Clark.
Col. Griffiths: I have got to say a word on this subject.
All the kindness of Judge Whitehead's remarks this morn-
ing at the nomination of the President-General, and the mem-
ory of all the past years of goodness, would make me, if the
ladies were not here, hug every one of you.
The Rev. Dr. Clark has come here to meet you every year, no
matter where we have met, and his dear, sweet smile, his kind-
ness of heart, his honest grasp of the hand, have made a friend
of every one of you. (Applause.) I will second that nomina-
tion, not only on account of all of his good qualities, but m
order that Maryland may bestow upon each and every one of
you a blessing so sincere for what you have done for us to-day.
There are no words that can express what is right in my heart
here.
A Delegate : I move that nominations be closed for the office
of Chaplain-General. Seconded.
Mr. Smith (Mich.) : My friends upon the delegation think
it would be improper for Michigan to receive all these double
honors without thanking this Congress for them. A modern
poet, and a very minor poet, has put into two lines the sentiment
which voices our hearts ; it is humorous. He says :
"I much prefer the taffy while I live,
To all the epitaph (y) you can give."
(Laughter.)
We thank the Congress for these honors.
President-General Warfield: If there are no further
nominations for the office of Chaplain-General, it has been moved
and seconded that nominations be closed and that the Secretary
cast the unanimous vote of this Congress for Rev. Rufus Clark
as Chaplain-General.
Motion carried unanimously.
Rev. Rufus Clark : "To my faults you are very mild ; to
my virtues very kind." As I look over this distinguished as-
sembly and recall the services and the names of the men who
have been elected as officers here, and have thought over their
ancestry, which has been referred to, it has led me to a question
as to who my ancestors were. Perhaps some of you might
like to know. One member from whom I qualify, I am proud to
say, came from the State of Massachusetts ; another from Vir-
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ginia. The former had the distinction of not being jemembered
very long in his day and time, but I remember him well, and
knew him well; but he served his country as a pirate, and I
think that if he lived to-day and under the rules of modern
warfare he would be hung. He sailed under a letter of marque.
He served his country as a sailor and also as a soldier. As a
soldier he was one of the first American soldiers to enter Boston
after its evacuation by the British, and he was a little man. He
told me of the story of its being a very cold day when they
went into Boston, and to enable him to keep himself warm
he crawled into a baker's oven. He had some relatives by the
name of Dunn, and one of the children asked of my distinguished
ancestor what, if the baker started his fire during the night,
would they call him? One suggested that they call him
"Captain Baked Beans;" another suggested that he might be
called "A Little Overdone" (Dunn). But he was a compatriot
and was well known to some of the ancestors of those who are
here, because he served under your ancestors and obeyed orders.
I want to say just this one word to those who have spoken
here to-day: that one of the great delights of meeting men
here on this floor from year to year is not only the assurance of
their confidence, but is the reassuring and cheering pleasure of
their friendship for us to meet hand to hand and have heart
beat to heart.
The other ancestor I qualify from came from Virginia; so we
meet from the North and the South, and we have bridged that
line, whatever line there was, between the North and the South.
And we will bridge it between the East and the West. And we
will stand in history distinguished for this fact, that we repre-
sent the one organized body of the United States of a fraternal
character; the one single bo4y of this character that stands, not
for the East, or for the West, or for the North, or for the South,
but for a united nation. (Applause.) I thank you, Mr. Chair-
man, for your very kind words in introducing me.
General Anderson : I wish to propose a vote of thanks
to Captain Samuel Eberly Gross for his faithful, zealous and
efficient service as Secretary-General of this Society.
Motion seconded and carried.
Judge Hancock : I move that the Secretary-General be
authorized to collate and publish the proceedings of this con-
vention in a manner, according to his discretion, suitable for
the purpose.
Mr. Bates: I second the motion. I desire to say that it
is a very desirable way in which to publish the proceedings of
our Congress for the Secretary to have the discretion to publish
them as he thinks best.
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Judge Hancock: I don't mean that he shall have discretion
as to what is going into it; but the manner in which it shall
be published.
Motion carried.
Judge Whitehead: When it was reported to me that
we were to meet in the District of Columbia this year, and
that the invitation had been accepted, I was also told that the
Society of the District of Columbia intended to give us the
grandest entertainment this Congress ever received from the
hands of any Society. I doubted very much the ability of the
Society of the District of Columbia to do that. I remembered
Cleveland and Detroit and other places where our kind treat-
ment I thought could not be exceeded by any possibility. But
how can I describe? What words can I use to give full mean-
ing to the feelings of my heart when I look back upon the last
three days in the City of Washington and the attention we have
received at the hands of the District of Columbia Society ? There
is no word in the English language that I know of to give a
proper adjective to the word "reception." We have been re-
ceived with open hearts and open hands ; we have been carried
around the city in cars ; we have been feted and received ; and
here we are to-day, the recipients of this wonderful hospitality !
The only thing we can do is to tender to the District of Colum-
bia Society our heartfelt thanks for this most magnificent recep-
tion receive^ «.i their hands. (Applause.)
A Delegate: On behalf of the State of Massachusetts,
which represents in numbers the largest Society in the associa-
tion, it gives me great pleasure to second the motion offered by
Judge Whitehead.
Walter S. Logan : No man knows better than I do
what the District of Columbia has done for us. They have
labored night and day, week-days and Sundays, for the last
six months to give us what we have enjoyed during the last
three days. I thought that when we had the convention in New
York we made a record; we got to Pittsburg, and found New
York wasn't in it. We came to Washington, and find that noth-
ing has been in it. The National Society of the S. A. R. are
beggars ; they cannot hold a national convention unless some
generous constituent Society furnishes them the opportunity.
When we were debating the question as to where we should
hold the next convention, I said to them that there was a pro-
vision of the Constitution which prevented me from ever being
elected again ; and besides that, I could not get the votes if there
were no such provision in the Constitution; and I wanted to
make this Congress the grandest that had ever been held, and
that I didn't know of any place in the United States where I had
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more friends than in the District of Columbia. So we voted to
hold the Congress here. They all went to work — I was going
to mention some names, but it isn't necessary for you to know
the names I would mention, anyway. I simply add, therefore,
to what the other members who have spoken on this motion have
said my own tribute to what the members of the District of Col-
umbia Society from Larner down have done. If I had my way
about it, I would in some way get a treasury for the National
Society of the S. A. R. I would send next week to the Philip-
pines to capture a treasury, if I could not get it in any other way.
I would do something to get a treasury, and then I would want
to hold the National Congress in Washington every year. I
haven't the effrontery to propose, as things stand now, that it
shall be held here every year, for I think they need a year's
rest after what they have been doing the past year. But some
time within the next hundred years I hope we shall come back
to Washington, when it will be a greater city than it is now;
when it will be a greater Society than it is now, for the Society
is growing every time we meet. But we cannot find a more de-
voted body of members, men who will work harder to make the
entertainment a success, than the District of Columbia Society;
as all the members of it have done this time.
I am not willing to rest this upon the simple resolution of the
Society. I want to extend to the District of Columbia Society
my personal thanks for what they have done for me. (Applause.)
Col. Logan : I rise in behalf of Pennsylvania to second
the motion of Judge Whitehead in thanking the District of
Columbia for the magnificent entertainment they have given us.
A year ago Pennsylvania thought we were in it, but we are
down here with our hats in our hands admitting that we are
away back. We have had a most magnificent entertainment, and
I don't believe any other State is going to be able to reach the
pace the District of Columbia has set in our entertainment.
Mr. Bates : It would certainly be ungracious if we should
leave out of the ceremony the one who has contributed so
much, perhaps more than any one else, to the success of this
conference; to the success of this Society. I know I voice the
sentiment of all, that the thanks of this Congress are due to
our Ex-President-General, Walter S. Logan, of our Society, for
the most efficient and able manner in which he has conducted the
affairs of the Society. (Applause.)
President-General Warfield : The gentleman is out of
order. The motion is on the question of the courtesies extended
to us in Washington.
Motion carried unanimously that a hearty vote of thanks be
tendered to the Society of the District of Columbia.
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Hon. Noble D. Larner : I only want to say, in behalf of District
of Columbia, that we do not claim any extra credit for what we
have done. Our delegates have travelled all over this country, to
various cities, and have enjoyed the hospitality of the various so-
cieties. We have tried to see what we could do for you ; we have
done the best we could, and we rejoice that our efforts are ap-
proved by the Society. We are not quite through with our pro-
gramme, and we trust that the wind-up will be as satisfactory.
We are very glad that we have been able to gratify you in any
way. (Applause.)
President-General Warfield: Mr. Bates, of Michigan,
moves that the thanks of this Society be extended to our retiring
President-General Logan for the able and impartial manner in
which he has administered the office, and the liberality he has
shown, and the work that he has done for the good of our So-
ciety. ^
General J. C. Breckinridge : I ask for a rising vote.
Motion carried unanimously by rising vote.
President-General Warfield (to Mr. W. S. Logan) : I
take great pleasure in extending to you the thanks of this Con-
gress.
W. S. Logan : I want to thank you.
Mr. Briggs (Tex.) : I move that the thanks of this Congress
be tendered to the Daughters of the American Revolution of the
District of Columbia for the kindness and hospitality which
they have extended to us.
Motion carried.
Judge Hancock: It has been my good fortune to read very
carefully the Constitution and By-laws of this Society. I find in
that Constitution no order or system of business. It is a thing
that we very much need. The order of business can possibly be
fixed up by each particular President ; but a system which will
enable us to transact our business rapidly, systematically and
thoroughly should be in some way framed by this Society. I
now move:
'That the Executive Committee be authorized and directed to
frame an order and system of business to be presented to this So-
ciety at its next annual convention in the form of a by-law."
President-General Warfield: The Chair fully agrees with
Judge Hancock's motion. All those in favor will please say aye.
Motion carried.
Walter S. Logan : Since we last met, in fact, since a very re-
cent time, the Society has lost by death one of its most distin-
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guished sons, General Estey, President of the Vermont Society,
who died only a short time ago. The last time I saw him — I
think it was the last time you saw him— was at a meeting of our
Board of Managers at New York, in October ; he was with us
then, heart and soul. The last thing he said to me was: "Lo-
gan, we are going to make the National Congress in the District
of Columbia the grandest success we have ever had." And he
set to work to do his part to carry out that resolution. He has
always been a consistent, hard-working member of the Society.
In his native State he was loved and honored by every one.
Throughout the nation he was honored and loved by every one
who knew him, and his State and the nation mourned his death
when he died. I wish to introduce the following resolution :
Resolved: By the National Congress of the Sons of the American
Revolution, now in session in the City of Washington, that a committee
consisting of five compatriots be appointed by the Chair to prepare me-
morial resolutons upon the death of General Julius Jacob Estey, late Presi-
dent of the Vermont Society, for publication in the proceedings of this
Congress, and that a certified copy of the resolution be transmitted to the
family of the deceased.
Motion carried.
President-General Warfield : The Chair appoints on that
committee :
W. S. Logan, of New York.
Charles S. Forbes, of Vermont.
Hon. Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey.
Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut.
Gen. Jos. C. Breckinridge.
President-General Warfield: The Chair declares the fol-
lowing gentlemen duly elected as Vice-Presidents of this Society :
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley (I33)
Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross (11S)
Noble D. Larner (114)
Howard DeHaven Ross ( 89)
Col. Albert J. Logan ( 88)
The following also received votes :
Judge M. B. Beardsley ( 87)
Charles Warner Lippitt ( 52)
Judge Whitehead ( 8)
Judge Goode ( 2)
Col. Griffith : All the work of the convention having been
completed, I move that we now adjourn sine die.
Motion carried.
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BANQUET NATIONAL CONGRESS SONS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Hon. Noble D. Larner: Compatriots — The first part of our
programme for the evening we have gone through with ; and to
those of our visitors, compatriots from other points, as the Pres-
ident of the Society of the District of Columbia, I want to extend
to you our sincere thanks for your attendance, and we trust that
what we have tried to do for you has been to your entire satisfac-
tion. (Applause.) I assure wou that the President of the Dis-
trict of Columbia Society, together with all of his colleagues, are
about the proudest Sons of the American Revolution that you
will find in the United States to-night. (Applause.)
I do not propose to detain you by trying to make any remarks ;
I have talked all I propose to talk since this convention opened,
and I think you have had as much of my talk as it is necessary
that you should have. I therefore take great pleasure in intro-
ducing to you a member of the Society of the District of Co-
lumbia who is to act as toastmaster of the evening, Compatriot
David J. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State.
Toastmaster Hill: Mr. President-General, Mr. President
of the Society of the District of Columbia, and Compatriots —
Without a single word of preliminary, let me thank you for the
privilege of presenting to a company so eager to greet them, the
illustrious statesmen and orators who have honored this occasion
with their presence. But before we pay our respects to the liv-
ing, let us do an act of solemn homage to the dead. May I ask
you to rise to your feet and lift your glasses in reverent silence in
memory of the glorious company, the soldiers and sailors of the
American Revolution.
Toast drunk standing.
Compatriots, we have received this evening the distinguished
honor of the presence at our board of our Compatriot, the Presi-
dent of the United States. (Applause.) He has not promised
to make a speech to us, and yet I feel that he may be disposed to
say a few words at this moment.
Mr. President, I present to you your compatriots, delegates and
guests of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
(Loud applause.)
President Roosevelt : Mr. Toastmaster, Mr. President, Compatriots
(applause) and fellow Americans (applause) — It is a pleasure to take part
in greeting you this evening. Societies that cultivate patriotism in the present
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by keeping alive the memory of what we owe to the patriotism of the past
fill an indispensable function in this Republic. (Applause.) You come
here to-night from every quarter, from every State of the Republic and
from the islands of the sea. (Applause.) For you see, gentlemen, the
Republic has put up its flag in the islands of the sea, and the flag will
stay there. (Applause.)
And glad I am to meet you here to-night, you the sons of the statesmen
and soldiers, the descendants of the statesmen and soldiers who fought to
establish this country in 1776. (Applause.) Some of the older among
you, the fathers of others, fought no less valiantly, wearing the blue or the
gray, in the Civil War. (Applause.) I welcome you here; and may we
now show our fealty to the great men who did the great deeds of the past,
not alone by words but by deeds. May we prove ourselves true to them,
not merely by paying homage to their memory, but by so shaping the
policy of this great Republic as to make it evident that we are not unworthy
of our sires. (Applause.) They did justice, and we will do justice.
(Applause.) And they did justice as strong men, not as weaklings, and we
will show ourselves strong men and not weaklings. (Applause.)
I see before me men who lived in iron times ; men who did great deeds.
I see here a delegate from Kentucky who served under Farragut in the
great days. (Applause.) I see the descendant of a man from Connecticut
who was called "Brother Jonathan." (Applause.) All around the table,
all around these tables, are gathered men the names of whose ancestors
stand not only for righteousness but also for strength. For both qualities,,
gentlemen, are essential. Righteousness finds weakness but a poor yoke-
fellow ; with righteousness must go strength to make that righteousness o*f
avail. (Applause.)
And in the name of the mighty men of the past, I ask each man. here to
do his part in seeing that this nation remains true in deed, as well as in
word, to the ideals of the past (applause) ; to remember that we can no
more afford to show weakness than we can afford to do wrong ; that where
wrong has been done by any one, the wrongdoer shall be punished (ap-
plause) ; but that we shall not halt in any great work because some man
has happened to do wrong. (Applause.)
Honor to the statesmen of the past ; may the statesmen of the present
strive to live up to the example that they set. Honor to the army and
navy of the past (applause) ; and honor to those gallant Americans wear-
ing the uniform of the American Republic who in the army and navy of
the present day uphold it ; who in the army and navy of the present day
uphold gloriously the most glorious traditions of the past. (Applause.)
I have been down to-day to Annapolis to see the graduating class of the
Naval Academy ; and it would have done your heart good to see those fine,
manly, upstanding young fellows that looked every man straight in the face
without flinching, and to feel that the honor of the Republic is pretty safe
in their hands. (Applause.)
And now another thing, Compatriots of the Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution. We are Americans ; and that means that we treat
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Americanism as a matter primarily of spirit and purpose, and in the
broadest sense regard every man as a good American, whatever his creed,
whatever his birthplace, if he is true to the ideals of this Republic. (Ap-
plause. )
I was glad to see those young fellows to-day ; I am glad to-night to meet
representatives of the navy like you, Admiral Watson (applause) ; and of
the army, like you, General Breckinridge. (Applause.) I am glad that we
as Americans have cause to be proud of the Army and Navy of the United
States to-day, as we had in the past.
I ask you now to join with me in drinking to the health of the men who
in the past have upheld the honor of the flag, and of those who during the
last three years have so valiantly upheld it at a time when we of this gen-
eration needed it. To their health! (Toast drunk standing, amidst loud
and continued applause.) I thank you, fellow Americans, and I think you
make it evident that you intend that the flag shall stay put. (Applause.)
Toastmaster Hill i Compatriots, we have had a great honor
and a great pleasure, and I am sure it is in our hearts to thank
the President of the United States for his presence and his words
of inspiration.
The National Society of the S. A. R. has had many distin-
guished presidents, and it has taken several of them from the
State and City of New York, and, compatriots, when a Con-
necticut boy goes to New York to be a man and a lawyer, the
probability is that he will be a great man. If he happens to be
descended from such a man as Thomas Hooker, who led his lit-
tle flock to found a church in Connecticut, he will be a pious man.
(Laughter.) If he have among his kinsfolk the ancestor of a
Governor like Robert Treat, he will be a man well under disci-
pline. If he be descended from the ancestors of Grant and Sher-
man, he will be a brave man. The pious, the well disciplined, the
brave are present with us in the person of the Ex-President of the
National Society, Hon. Walter Seth Logan, of New York.
Hon. Walter Seth Logan : The Sons of the American Revolution
do well to cherish the memory of the fathers and to imbed in enduring his-
tory the record of their deeds. We are made in part of what we inherit.
But we are in much larger part the product of our own achievements.
If the memory of the fathers is an incentive to us to do still nobler deeds
than they did, then that memory is worth cherishing from the cradle to the
grave and from generation to generation. But if we simply rely on the
fame of our ancestors, and make no exertions for ourselves, then their
glory becomes our shame.
The blue blood of ancestry is by no means to be despised, but it is the
red blood of achievement that gives life and vigor to personal character and
makes national history.
We know that the sons will be worthy of their splendid opportunities.
not so much because their fathers stood in the trenches at Bunker Hill,
followed Mad Anthony at Stony Point, and rushed the breastworks at
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Yorktown, as because we have seen that the sons themselves have never
flinched when duty and danger lay in the same direction. It was red blood
and not blue blood that went into the bush at Guasimas, and up the hill
at San Juan. It was red blood and not blue blood that stood on the decks
and behind the guns of our nation's men-of-war at Manila Bay and off San-
tiago Harbor. It was red blood and not blue blood that during the past
five years has carried the flag twelve hundred miles farther east and seven
thousand miles farther west than it ever went before. The distinguished
member of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion, who is now President of the United States, won the hearts of his
countrymen, not because of what his ancestors did in the Revolution, but
because of what he himself has done for his country and his kind. The
heart of no American is fuller of red, virile blood than the heart of Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Let the fact that the fathers did be only another reason why we should
do. I believe in the strenuous life. It is the only life worth living. I be-
lieve in the life of continuous achievement, and when I can achieve no more
may I be gathered to my fathers.
I am not one of those who think that the need of patriotism is past ; that
all we have to do now is simply to gather the fruits from the tree that the
fathers planted. No ; there are more trees to be planted in the year 1902
than there were in the year 1776. There never were so many questions
fraught with untold interest to humanity that had to be settled by any
generation before us as have to be settled now by us. We are right here
and now up against problems of such supreme importance that all the
problems of the past pale before them. Need I mention them? Go to the
centres of finance, the centres of trade, the centres of industry, to the
homes of the people, and you will find them staring you in the face. Go to
Wall Street or Broadway, to Fifth Avenue or the East Side, to exchange,
or bank, or factory ; to the palace or the hovel, and you will hear the cry
coming up from every side. What is to be the end of it all. With billion-
dollar combinations of capital on one side and strikes of a hundred thousand
workmen on the other, there can be no Rip Van Winkle sleep in our gen-
eration.
And yet, my friends, I am an optimist of the optimists. I believe the
Lord made the world better than I could have made it myself if I had had
the contract. I believe that the God of Hosts is with us. I believe the
right solution will be found, and that we are emerging from the darkness
of infancy and ignorance into the bright sunlight of maturity and knowl-
edge.
But the reason I believe it is because I see that the men of our genera-
tion are coming to value the red blood of achievement more than the blue
blood of ancestry, and because I see that the sons are worthy of the fath-
ers— yet, beter than the fathers. The problems of our day are more
troublous than the problems with which the George the Thirds afflicted our
fathers, but the men who have them to settle are more capable even than
the fathers were of applying a wise, vigorous and efficient remedy. Our
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fathers found a Washington when they needed him most. We shall find
our leader when we need him most.
Perhaps he is in the White House now.
Toastmaster Hill : Compatriots, I had hoped that we should
next have the pleasure of listening to the President-elect of the
National Society. I wondered, when I looked about and saw his
empty place, where he had gone, for I knew that a descendant of
that Four Hundred of Maryland — red blood rather than blue
blood — that saved the army of Washington on Long Island, could
never turn his face away from his friends. I understand now
that he simply went out for ammunition. (Laughter.) I have
the honor, compatriots, to present to you the President-elect of
the National Society, Hon. Edwin Warfield, of Maryland. (Ap-
plause.)
Three cheers were given for President-General Warfield.
President-General Warfield: Mr. Toastmaster and com-
patriots— It would be a very hard heart that would not be touched
by the sweet strains of "Maryland, My Maryland." (Applause.)
I am here to-night because I am a native of Maryland. Our eloquent
Toastmaster could not understand why I left this platform. (Laughter.)
I didn't leave it # sooner, because the Chief Executive of this great nation
was here ; but, when he left, the attraction at the other end of this hall
was too great for me (indicating the Ladies' Gallery — Applause.) There
is not a Maryland man who does not love fair women. (Applause.) It is
growing late, and I do not intend to detain you ; but I want to say this,
that as I look into the faces of these Sons of the American Revolution I
feel that no greater honor ever came to an American than to be elected
the chief executive officer of your Society. (Applause.) Had it not been
for your heroic ancestors, that bright, youthful, forceful, able Chief Execu-
tive would not have been here to-night to address you, but we would have
had instead a Viceroy or a Governor-General. It was the patriotism, it
was the valor of your sires that made this great Republic possible. (Ap-
plause. ) I am proud of you ; there never was assembled in Washington,
not excepting the Senate of the United States, a handsomer body of men.
(Applause.) You all remember that the President of the District of Co-
lumbia Society announced to-day from the platform in our convention hall
that we were to be addressed by distinguished Senators and brilliant
orators. I know that you are waiting to hear from them. We have them
here, renowned throughout the land we have one here from that State that
has furnished to this Union three great Presidents. (Applause.) We have
another who comes from that grand old commonwealth that gave us Daniel
Webster. (Applause.) My compatriots, you will have many opportunities
of hearing me during the next year ; and I do not intend to detain you
longer, but will give way to these gentlemen who are now here.
Toastmaster Hill: Gentlemen, we have not only had the
honor of the presence here of the President of the United States,
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but the advice and consent of the Senate have been given to these
proceedings. I will not be a barrier between you and the fulfill-
ment of your expectations longer. We have two of the noblest
Romans of them all, whom we are anxiously waiting to hear.
(Applause.) One of them has been made inevitable as the next
speaker by the anticipatory reference of the last. He represents
that great State of Ohio, which has given three great Presidents
to the Republic. I have the pleasure, gentlemen, of presenting to
you Senator Hanna, of Ohio. (Applause.)
Hon. Marcus A. Hanna : Mr. President, Toastmaster and Sons — This
is the first time that I have had the pleasure of meeting with members of
this organization. I came here to-night, not to make a speech, but to be
sworn in. (Laughter.) But after hearing the creed of the organization,
as announced by the President of the United States, I think I will have to
stay on the probation list a little while longer. However, I am glad to
meet with you ; glad to have the honor of being a member in prospect of
your organization after I have taken the oath. I haven't had my share
of champagne, therefore I am not fit for it. (Laughter.)
It was some time before I knew whether I was eligible to membership in
this organization. When I was asked to join I commenced to look back for
the first time in my life over my ancestry. I found on my father's side
that they were all Quakers, therefore they could not have fought in the
Revolution. (Laughter.) And I began looking up the other side of the
house, and after going back I found a colonel or a captain or somebody
that had really fought in the Revolution. My Quaker ancestry has been a
handicap to me in life, because it has made me a man of peace always
(laughter and cheers) ; and I never felt quite certain of myself when I got
among warriors, particularly the grandsons of warriors.
However, if this association will turn a little of its effort and attention
to the more commonplace things of life, I think I can give you some good
advice. I don't mean politics, gentlemen. (Laughter.) I mean the duties
of citizenship, which are not confined to banqueting halls, nor good times
generally, nor passing resolutions. There is a wide field for the class of
men who belong to this organization as a nucleus from which may radiate
an effort in this country under conditions which are confronting us to-day,
alluded to by one of the speakers, of great affairs and of greater events ;
where a small number of patriots with something to do with the internal
affairs of their country, by effort and by example, may make their influence
felt in all strata of society, beginning at the bottom. (Applause.) It is a
grand thing, a noble thing, to indulge in these patriotic meetings and patri-
otic efforts, especially when we consider this great cosmopolitan people,
growing with such rapidity in population as almost to pour over the whole
domain from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; men from every nation and from
every clime ; used to all forms of government ; respecting only that feature
of government which has the power centered to control. The patriotic
feeling of the American people will always permeate our country. Liberty
is in her ; we breathe it and we absorb it. But, for all that, there is work
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to do that the fruits of it may be known to all classes and all men. We
have an educational work to do as American citizens ; we must not be
bound up selfishly in our own affairs as in normal conditions — which are
prosperous conditions — in this country. We must not forget that we are
guardians ; that we have wards coming to us from every shore in the
world, who are an especial care and responsibility. Let us, then, not only
give them the benefit that comes to us from the blue and red blood of which
we are so proud ; but let us feel that it is our duty to devote a part of our
time to the consideration of their conditions. That duty should be to lift
them up, and not bear them down (applause) ; and the duty is magnified
and multiplied in proportion as we encounter ignorance. These people
must be taught liberty ; must be taught that liberty is not license ; but that
self-government comes in the nature of things from the patriotism which
fills our atmosphere. In the work of this organization I can see the oppor-
tunity to make the effort and to make names for ourselves that shall go
down to posterity. (Applause.) Make it along the lines proposed by the
President of the United States. Do not spare patriotism or high ideals,
and do not admit that they are too high — that they may not be reached by
the lowest. (Applause.)
Toastmaster Hill : The place of Massachusetts in the his-
tory of the Revolution is well known. That great State of our
Union has always been represented in the Senate of the United
States by able and distinguished men. Never in its history has
it been represented by a truer patriot or by a more cultivated
scholar than at the present day. We are proud and happy to
have at our board to-night and to have the pleasure of listening to
the Senator from Massachusetts, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge.
Henry Cabot Lodge: Mr. Toastmaster — Massachusetts needs no
backing up. A committee hearing at ten o'clock in the morning, a meeting
of the Senate at twelve, a discussion of the politics of North Carolina in
connection with the Philippine bill at two o'clock, is a meagre preparation
for speaking even in the briefest manner to such an assemblage as this.
Yet it is the only preparation that I have had.
As I sat here to-night and listened to the speeches that have been made,
it has seemed to me that the lesson of the patriotism which this Society
commemorates by its existence is one that cannot be learned too often.
We cannot do better, in making up our own patriotism and our own stand-
ards of duty to our country than to look back at the history of the Revo-
lution. And out of the time in which we give all honor to the statesmen
and the leaders in the various States, our thought turns most readily, when
we would evoke the image of the Revolution, to the army ; it turns to the
great figure of Washington. (Applause.) It turns to that army which
followed him over the ice at Trenton, wintered with him through the cold
of Valley Forge, and, accompanied by the legions of France, marched south
with him to the crowning victory at Yorktown. (Applause.) And yet
they were not always successful ; they had their defeats ; they had their
troubles. There were occasions when they even rose in mutiny because
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Congress had failed to pay them. Yet we think always still of the ragged
Continentals before we think of the men who didn't vote their pay. They
had their critics, very severe criticism, and yet I think the opinion of pos-
terity goes with Washington rather than with the eminent gentlemen who
thought it would be well to substitute Gates in his place. They had their
critics, and yet we turn to them when we call up the image of the past,
rather than to the Conway cabal. Yes, they had their critics, and they de-
manded then something more than criticism; they demanded justice. And
the justice which perhaps they did not receive at the time in such measure
as they deserved — for it is not to be forgotten with how small a reward
or consideration they were mustered out — the justice which failed them
then, history has not failed to award. (Applause.) The justice of history
is but cold comfort to the living man. When we find cause to criticise or to
condemn, let us not do it until we are sure of all our facts ; let us remem-
ber that as we in this great Republic would seek to do justice to all men,
there are no men who so deserve the most exact justice as the soldiers who
wear the uniform of the United States. (Applause.) That is all I would
ask for them ; that is all that the lesson of the Revolution would teach us.
I do not believe that the sons are unworthy of the sires ; I do not believe
that the Army of the United States and the Navy of the United States are
unworthy descendants of the men who followed Washington, who followed
Grant, and who fought in our own day and generation against Spain. (Ap-
plause. )
I ask for them in their lifetime simple justice; and that, I think, they
have earned. Give them justice. Remember all the trials, all the fatigues,
all the dangers, all the perils they confront. No American can refuse it.
Gentlemen, it is easy, in these sheltered walls at home, to criticize men
struggling in the tropical jungle, scattered about from one end of an archi-
pelago to another, in little bands commanded by a sergeant or a young lieu-
tenant. If they have done wrong, we must trust to the justice of the ad-
ministration and of the War Department to condemn the guilty. But do
not let that condemnation go out without sufficient proof on the heads of
all that great organization known as the American Army ; because it is
not a Republican army, and it is not a Democratic army ; it is the Army
of the United States. (Applause.) They are bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh. I would not condone anything that is wrong ; if they have
done wrong, no man can regret it so bitterly, so passionately as I. But I
plead here, as I mean to plead elsewhere, if strength is given me, that the
American people listen to every condition and to all the facts. When they
have heard these, then let them judge ; then let them do justice to the
American Army, whose banners shine with great names from Yorktown to
Manila, and whose record is a glory in the annals of the Republic. (Ap-
plause. )
Three cheers were given for the old Bay State.
Toastmaster Hill : There is still something left for us upon
your programme ; but before we proceed to it, let us have a song
from the quartet who are present, and who will now sing for us.
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The Quartet sang "Sunshine," by Fred Schilling.
Toastmaster Hill : The next speaker is known to us of the
Society of the District of Columbia as an officer of the United
States who has rendered distinguished service to the United States
in a civil position ; as a patriot whose heart is always astir with the
sacred memories of the past, and who has the gift of arousing
in the hearts of his fellows the chords of the past and of the
glories of our country. I have the pleasure of presenting to you
the Hon. James T. Du Bois.
Hon. James T. Du Bois : Mr. President and Compatriots — The Ger-
mans have a saying that "for the happy the hour never strikes." But when
I looked at the time just now and saw how swiftly the hours have flown
under the benign influence of both physical and mental pabulum, I feel
like appropriating the language of Thompson, who sold a horse to Smith,
representing that it was only five years old. Several days afterwards
Smith met Thompson, and he said : "Thompson, the director of the Santa
Fe Railroad told me just now that he saw you drive that horse into this
town over fifteen years ago." Thompson looked at Smith in dismay for a
moment, and then said pathetically to Smith : "My God, how time does
fly!" (Applause.)
Some people are so nervously constituted that they consider every in-
cident an accident, and every accident a calamity, and in times of war
every pass from camp to camp according to the caprices of victory. The
volcanoes of the American Revolution brought a great many such men as
these to the surface; and some of them were like the old schoolmaster who
was brought before a board of school directors for examination. When they
asked him: "What is the shape of the earth?" he replied: "Well gen-
tlemen, I will teach that it is either round or flat ; anything to please the
boys." (Applause.) Some of these men were so weak-kneed and timid
that they resembled the knock-kneed man who was so completely knock-
kneed that whenever he went out to take a walk one leg seemed to say to
the other, "Please let me pass this time and I will let you pass next."
(Laughter.) )
To that band of spiritless men, James Smith, a singer of the Declara-
tion of Independence, who marched the first Pennsylvania Company from
New York to the East, did not belong. When disaster came with its chilly
blast to General Washington, and the friends of yesterday fell thick and
fast away from him, Robert Morris, the greatest financier of his day, stood
steadfast by the immortal commander, with his money and his mind. (Ap-
plause.) In a moment of great emergency one of Morris's privateers ar-
rived with ninety tons of lead. Morris promptly gave that lead to Wash-
ington in bulk, and Washington promptly gave it to Lord Cornwallis in
rounded lumps, and Lord Cornwallis promptly returned the compliment by
unconditional surrender. When the British Commissioner Johnson offered
General Joseph Dregg $50,000 and a high civil position if he would assist
in . compelling a speedy submission of the Colonies to Great Britain, he
spurned indignantly the bribe with these immortal words: "I am not worth
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purchasing ; but, such as I am, the King of England is not rich enough to
buy me." I say there were a great many men during the Revolutionary
War so timid and weak-kneed that they didn't seem to have the courage of
the old woman in the last Presidential campaign. I was riding on a trolley
car, and as the car waited to let another car pass I noticed considerable ex-
citement in the street. I stepped out on the platform to see what was
going on, and saw two little boys drawn up in fighting array. One little
boy said to the other : "You are nothing but a little goldbug, anyway, and
I can prove it!" Then the little silverbug went down, and the little goldbug
went down heavily upon him. Suddenly the mother of the little goldbug
took her boy by the trousers and the collar and she hurried away with him
as fast as possible. The silverbug, always plucky, struggled to his feet, and,
shaking his fist defiantly at the retreating foe, he cried : "You are nothing
but a goldbug, anyhow, and so is your mother ; and she is a washerwoman."
Instantly the mother took her little boy and pushed him toward the silver-
bug, and said : "Now, boy, go for him and knock the bullion out of him."
(Laughter.)
There were a great many in that Revolution who didn't have the courage
of this old woman, because they would not fight and would not uphold and
support the brave neighbors who were in front fighting for liberty and
country. While such men were quailing and shivering at the approaching
shadows of defeat, the famous and chivalrous Captain Biddle, of the ill-
starred "Randall," remained undismayed. While engaged in the combat
with the British ship Yarmouth he was wounded in the thigh, but he kept
his place on deck amidst the blaze of battle, while many of his weak-kneed
neighbors were keeping their knees warm at the fire, criticizing the army.
And as his life-blood was oozing out he told his men to stand fast, and he
issued orders with calmness and decision until his good ship was blown
to atoms, until he and his brave men went down to unknown graves.
Such were some of the men who stayed by Washington during the black-
est days of the Revolution to enable him to create and baptize the flag in
the name of freedom, in the name of self-government, in the name of the
sovereignty of the individual and equal rights to all who might seek our
shores. (Applause.) That is now one hundred and twenty-six years ago,
yet we can say without reserve that those thirteen stripes and five-pointed
stars have kept their sacred word. There have been party demagogues and
political mountebanks, we admit ; there have been feuds and cabals, and
dangerous conspiracies ; of that there is no question. There have been
times when the will of the people was no longer the law of politics, but the
law of politics was the will of the professional politician. There have been
times when the power of pelf overawed the spirit of patriotism and the lips
of the place-hunter clung to the spoils system with the hunger of a leech-
like thing. There have been times when some men seemed to believe that
liberty purchased by the blood of the citizen ought to lead to no other con-
summation than the cowardly oppression of the people ; there have been
socialistic agitators, like Coxey and Brown, who marched their army of be-
draggled hoboes to the banks of the Potomac, only to find, beneath the very
shadow of the Capitol, that they and all mobs must "keep off the grass."
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But through all these scenes of national vicissitudes that flag which found
its being on the 15th of June, 1777, in the City of Brotherly Love, has, in
compatriots' hands, dissolved the clouds of national danger, warmed the
frozen lineaments of national indifference, and gilded every national hope
with the pure and genial splendor of its stars. And to-night it still lights
the great Republic to her lofty and splendid destiny. And, gentlemen, right
here permit me to say that beneath its ample folds we may well remember
the indestructible truth which was first uttered in the name of England in
Chinese waters, and then repeated by the brave Germanic people, that
"Blood is thicker than water," always has been, always will be, and no
power on earth can change the Anglo-Saxon condition that now confronts
the human race. (Applause.)
In the keeping of our compatriots that flag will never permit the brutal
hand of anarchy to pull down the proud name McKinley has won. (Ap-
plause.) Nor can we forget that in his name and under his wise leader-
ship this country has crossed the paths of national greatness with the
strides of a giant, until the princes of the earth bow before our industrial
prowess, and prosperity sets us supremely upon her throne. Nor need I
remind you that
"It was on a dewy morning,
All in the month of May,
And Dewey was the Admiral's name
Who took Manila Bay."
Do we now feel discouraged? I don't think we do. (Applause.) As the
President has just said, God sent Old Glory there ; God evidently intends
that Old Glory shall stay there. And what God hath joined together, let no
man put asunder. (Applause.) For has it not been truthfully said that
beneath the sands of Luzon sleep our heroic dead, and from above that
sacred soil no foreign flag shall ever greet the dawn? Christ died to
make men holy ; our heroes have died to make that people free ; and
America, in God, goes marching on to the westward, where the course of all
glorious empire takes its magnificent way. Need I remind you of that start-
ling and complete annihilation of a mighty fleet of fighting ships in a few
moments of time. It was a Captain's fight — for that we have the highest
possible authority, unless you go beyond the earth — and I am prone to
believe that impartial history will record that every man did his duty, from
the little jack tar who cried, "There they come ; let me change my Sunday
clothes, and we will give them hell," up to the Admiral who commanded
the fleet. When those rough riders swept the heights of San Juan, you
know, and I know, and the whole world knows, that those brave men and
their gallant commander adorned a page of martial history with the finest
bit of fighting courage that has ever been recorded in the Temple of Mars,
And when the war broke out under Mongolian skies, and the finest of the
armed forces of the civilized world gathered to scale the walls of Pekin.
our great compatriot's voice lifted itself for mercy, justice and peace ; and
the whole world listened, and peace and mercy came ; and then, on a gentle
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September day, you saw him standing in the Temple of Music by the
shores of the inland seas, the illustrious President, the victorious diplomat,
the beloved of the nation, the friend of mankind, and you saw him with a
smile put forth his hand in generous greeting to a fellow creature, and you
saw that fellow creature strike him to death. Oh, would that we could
put the whip in justice's hands, that she might lash such rascals naked
around the earth. Compatriots, our great compatriot dead, and our great
compatriot who has succeeded him shall live in our hearts forever. '(Ap-
plause. )
Toastmaster Hill : There is still more oratory to come that
is well worth your waiting; but before we hear it there is to be a
presentation made to Ex-President Logan. The presentation will
be made by Judge Whitehead.
Judge Whitehead : Compatriot Logan, we have delighted for the year
past to call you President-General. Now, sir, you take your seat down
with us, and we and you are equal. But there is a record of the past which
makes you superior to us all, and I rise to speak to you in the name of
those who delight to honor you and to recall to you and to the compatriots
who are listening to the memories of that past.
In the month of April, 1889, a few patriotic citizens, fired by the
memories and recollections of that grand day commemorative of the in-
auguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States,
met together in old Fraunce's Tavern, in New York, and there began the
inauguration of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. They
were few in number, very few ; but they were fired in their heart of hearts
with that patriotism which fired their fathers in the establishment of the
independence of this great country ; and to-night we see the culmination of
that 30th day of April, 1889, in this vast assemblage of compatriots gathered
here together to do honor to the merits, to the patriotism, to the self-
sacrifice of our ancestors. That little gathering on that 30th day of April
was culminated not only in this assemblage before us this evening, but in
an assemblage of 12,000 American citizens of thirty-nine States of the
Union, who are meeting from time, as we are to-night, not only in the ban-
quet hall, but in the halls of deliberation, deliberating to know what is
best to be done for the interests of this great association. And now there
has come a time when it has been thought best to make a Register of all
the members of the different societies of the S. A. R., and that great task
was entrusted to a. Committee on Publication, of which Howard DeHaven
Ross, of Delaware — that noble young man — was the Chairman. (Ap-
plause. )
Through the munificence of you, sir (addressing Compatriot W. S.
Logan), through your self-sacrifice, that work has been completed, and I
have the honor of presenting to you the first volume issued from the press,
and which you will find enclosed in this little casket.
This casket is made from the wood taken from the Morris Mansion,
where lived once Mary Phillips, who loved George Washington, but who
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did not succeed in capturing his heart, for it was reserved to Washington to
gain a nobler prize. In that casket is a part of the wood of Fraunce's
Tavern, and a piece of Connecticut oak. I believe, sir, you claim parentage
from Connecticut. That oak is a symbol of the strength and vitality of the
red blood that flows in your veins. You will find enclosed in this casket
also the arms of the Logan family ; and upon it you will find inscribed a
heart, a large heart, a heart emblematic of the heart which beats within
your system, so full of generous work, so full of generous self-sacrifice. I
present it and the casket to you in the name of the publisher, Mr. Louis H.
Cornish, and in the name of the Committee on Publication. (Applause.)
Hon. W. S. Logan: Mr. Toastmaster, Judge Whitehead, ladies and
gentlemen, I thought this morning that I came from Connecticut, but after
hearing Judge Whitehead I have no idea where I did come from. It is usual,
so far as 1 know, in all well-conducted funerals to give the corpse at least
twenty-four hours' notice. That is not the way you do in the District
of Columbia.
I see you have referred, sir, very feelingly to the secrifices I have made
in connection with the publication of the Register. Those sacrifices consist
in loaning Cornish a few hundred dollars, for which I have received my pay,
with six per cent, interest, when I could not get but four per cent, anywhere
else. (Laughter.) Just the same I am willing to take all the credit for it.
You have referred, sir, to my distinguished administration as President-
General. I was simply a sandwich man ; I stood between a great predecessor
and a great successor (applause) ; and wTas made illustrious by the shadows
falling both ways. (Applause.) This morning you were all my sons; this
afternoon I felt lonely ; but this evening I console myself with a glimpse
that I catch of something that I saw in the galleries and in the doorways,
and as soon as I can I am going to try to make myself a grandfather to the
daughters. So I don't care whether Warfield has you for his sons or not.
(Laughter.)
Judge Whitehead, there is no man living from whom I would be prouder
to receive a gift than from your sweet, lovely and venerable hands. (Ap-
plause.) I have been a member of the S. A. R. ever since there were any,
and as long as I have been a member I have worshipped at the shrine of
Judge Whitehead. And as long as he continues upon this earth — and we
guarantee him twenty years more — I shall be his worshipper.
Judge Whitehead, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cornish, and all who are
concerned in this job that has been put up on me to-night, I thank you
from the bottom of my heart. (Applause.) Mr. Toastmaster. the funeral
may go on.
Toastmaster Hill : I have risen, compatriots, with the inno-
cent purpose of peering about among the ladies to see if I could
discover the face of a distinguished Senator from New York, the
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. He was with us, but I don't see his
genial face just now. I will therefore ask that the Hon. John
Goode, from the Commonwealth of Virginia, close the speaking of
the evening — or rather of this morning.
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Judge Goode : Mr. Toastmaster, ladies and gentlemen, compatriots, this
is a violation of the Bill of Rights. It is cruel and unusual punishment
for me to be called upon at this late hour to take the place of the great
orator, Chauncey M. Depew. What can I say, what shall I say, after the
many able and eloquent and exhaustive and instructive addresses to which
wfa have listened? There has been so much said, and, upon the whole, so
well said, that I will not presume to detain you but for a few moments.
I am reminded of a story I heard once of two preachers. One of them
said to the other : "I have had many advantages over you in this life ; I
have had a college education ; I have a splendid library ; I write out all
my sermons carefully. But you have had no college education ; you have
no library ; you never write a sermon ; and yet you are a brilliant success
in the pulpit, while I am a dismal failure." The other preacher said, "I
can explain that, and I tell you how it is. When you sit down in your study
to write out those sermons, the devil is at your elbow, peeping over your
shoulder, seeing what you write, so that he may go out during the week and
prepare the hearts of the people to resist what you are going to say on
Sunday. But when I am going to preach, the devil himself doesn't know
what I will say." (Laughter.)
I am reminded of another story I heard at the Waldorf-Astoria, a few
years ago. One of the speakers said that there was an old Congregational
minister in Boston, who began his services at 8 :30 in the morning ; prayed
an hour ; preached until 12 ; took cold lunch ; and then preached until sun-
down. One day he had preached from early morn to dewy eve, until he
fainted away. A good deacon ran up and threw some ice-water in his face
to resusciate him. The old man revived, rose, looked around, and said :
"Now, let the congregation rise and sing the eighty-second Psalm, 'My bones
have waxed faint, because I have roared all day long." (Laughter.)
Now, we have heard a great deal to-day about our common country. I
am gratified to know that my brethren have enjoyed their visit to this beauti-
ful capital city of the country ; our common country, upon which a benefi-
cent Providence has lavished blessings and advantages such as have been
bestowed upon no other part of the habitable globe ; the country of which
an American citizen said on an occasion like this : "It is bounded on the
north by the British possessions ; on the south by the Gulf of Mexico ; on
the east by the Atlantic Ocean ; on the west by the Pacific Ocean." An-
other compatriot, who had been dining, thought he would improve on that,
and asked to be allowed to give that toast : "America, bounded on the north
by the North Pole ; on the South by the South Pole ; on the east by the
rising sun ; on the west by the setting sun." Another compatriot, not satis-
fied with that, being a little exhilarated, offered an amendment, and said :
"Let me propose that toast." He said : "America, the United States,
bounded on the North by the Aurora Borealis ; on the south by the procession
of the equinoxes ; on the east by primeval chaos ; on the west by the day
of judgment." (Laughter.)
I come from an ancient commonwealth, the old Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia. (Applause.) Some of our good friends say that we down in Vir-
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ginia have nothing to boast of but our antiquities ; that we breakfast on
tablets, dine on monuments, and sup on tombstones. (Laughter.) And at
the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago some years ago, when the great
commonwealths of the West and our sister States, of which we are so
proud, were making a magnificent exhibit of their industrial products, a
wag facetiously remarked that Old Virginia had nothing to show but George
Washington's golden snuff box and Lady Washington's lace handkerchief.
Now, my friends, I am here to plead guilty to the charge that we are
proud of the memories, the historic mementoes and hallowed associations
that cluster about the name of that renowned commonwealth. I want to say
— and 1 know it will strike a responsive chord in the breasts of my com-
patriots here — that the people who take no pride in the honorable deeds
of their ancestors are not apt to accomplish very much for themselves. (Ap-
plause. )
Now, as the preachers say, I want to improve this occasion ; I want to
turn it to account. There is a great event to take place ere long in the old
commonwealth. We are preparing to celebrate the tercentenary of the
settlement of the Colony of Jamestown, and I want to invoke the cordial
and hearty co-operation of my compatriots here in promoting that grand
object. (Appause. ) I may not be there to see it, but some of you will.
Jamestown was the cradle of the American Republic. When the colonists
came in the Susan Constant, the Discoverer and the Good Speed, and
landed on the 13th day of May, 1607, at Jamestown, they brought with
them those three institutions which have been enlarged and improved from
generation to generation, until they are now zealously guarded and cherished
as the noblest inheritance that belongs to man.
At Jamestown, the white man first met the red man for settlement and
civilization. Here the white men wielded the first axe to cut the first
log, to build the first log cabin. Here the first log cabin became a part of
the nrst State capital. Here was laid the foundation of a nation of free-
men, which has extended its dominion and its millions across the Continent
to the shores of another ocean.
We want to combine the sentimental with the material ! we are going
to make requisition upon the orator and the poet, and we intend to make
a grand exhibit of the present industrial resources of our State.
Now, my friends, in conclusion let me say that we do not live altogether
on antiquities. When the war between the States terminated, that people
didn't sit down in ignoble and inglorious ease and fold their arms. No :
they went to work with a resolute purpose and an indomitable will worthy
of the heroic race from which they sprang. Instead of calling upon
Hercules for help, they went to work to help themselves ; and I undertake
to say — it is due to the truth of history — that no people have ever exhibited
greater recuperative energies since the beginning of time. They have made
more corn, more wheat, more tobacco, produced more manufactures, built
more miles of railway, than they ever did in the same number of years
before. And the growth of our cities is indeed marvelous. Take the magic
City of Roanoke in the southwest. A few years ago I knew it as a vast
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wheat field ; now it has a population of 25,000 and is a great business centre.
Take the City of Newport News. When I was a candidate for Congress
in 1874, and landed at Newport News upon the steamer from Norfolk, I saw
two old dilapidated buildings there, and nothing more. Now it is a city with
a population of 27,000. It has the finest dockyard on this hemisphere,
which built last year six large steamers, put upon the waters the fastest
battleship afloat, and according to the late returns from the Treasury it is
second to New York as an export city.
Now, my friends, I mention this in no spirit of vainglorious boasting,
but to remind you that we are not content to live altogether upon memories.
We are proud of them; but the old State, God bless her (Applause),
crowned with the traditions of history, and bearing in her hands the precious
trophies of the past, has fixed her eye upon the morning of a new existence ;
a morning with glorious sunshine, sweet with the dew of flowers ; a morning
that betokens a day of strenuous effort, industrial growth, commercial
greatness, peace and prosperity, now and forever. (Applause.)
Toastmaster Hill : Your Hosts of the District of Columbia
thank you, compatriots, who have honored us with your presence
here, for your visit and for your companionship. We bid you
Godspeed, as you go from us. We will now join in a parting
song, which will close the banquet. (Applause.)
"Auld Lang Syne" was sung by the quartet.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE.
General Thos. M. Anderson, Chairman, State Soldiers' Home,
Erie County, Ohio.
Hon. Franklin Murphy, Trenton, N. J.
Hon. James Denton Hancock, Franklin, Pa.
General Francis H. Appleton, Boston, Mass.
Hon. Morris B. Beardsley, Bridgeport, Conn.
Charles Waldo Haskins, New York.
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Compatriot :
It is the painful duty of the President-General to announce
the death of Compatriot Charles Waldo Haskins, Secretary-Gen-
eral, from pneumonia, on January 9, 1903, after a very brief
illness.
Mr. Haskins was unanimously elected to the office of Secre-
tary-General at the annual Congress held in Washington last
spring. He had been for a number of years a member of the
Board of Managers of the Empire State Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution; and from 1893 to 1899, inclusive was
Treasurer-General of the National Society. • By his death we have
lost a patriotic and zealous worker in our noble cause.
(Signed) EDWIN WARFIELD,
President-General.
CHARLES WALDO HASKINS
REGISTER OF MEMBERS
OF THE
National Society Sons of the American
Revolution
WHO JOINED THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR 1902
Arranged Alphabetically by States
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REGISTER OF MEMBERS
OF THE
National Society Sons of the American Revolution
ARIZONA SOCIETY.
FRED CHASE CHRISTY, Phoenix, Ariz. (12608). Son of Isaac Marsh
Christy and Louisa A. Bennett ; grandson of Charles M. Bennett
and Louisa Canfield; great-grandson of Ephraim Bennett, private
New York troops, pensioned.
HOWARD JUDSON HALL, Tucson, Ariz. (12611). Son of Joshua
Beers Hall and Eugenia Frances Campbell; grandson of Samuel
Campbell and Elvira Smalley ; great-grandson of William Camp-
bell and Lucinda Learned ; great2-grandson of Sylvanus Learned,
Sergeant, Mass. Continental troops ; great3-grandson of Ebenezer
Learned, Brigadier-General Continental Army.
ARKANSAS SOCIETY.
SALATHIEL A. DUKE, Baxter, Ark. (11790). Son of David Duke
and Sarah Conard ; grandson of John Duke; great-grandson of
Francis Drake (and Sarah Shepherd), Commissary at Fort Henry,
Virginia, killed in service; great2-grandson of David Shepherd,
Lieutenant Ohio County, Virginia, at Fort Henry.
CALIFORNIA SOCIETY.
[Correction on page 117 of National Register: Date of letter to Colonel
Hubbard should be Louisville, Ky., May 1, 1890, not May 14, 1900.]
HERBERT WILMARTH BAILEY, Berkeley, Cal. (14712). Son of
George Henry Bailey and Ella Frances Bailey; grandson of Ed-
win Bailey and Margaret M. Bailey; great-grandson of Paul
Bailey and Sibyl B. Bailey ; great2-grandson of Paul Bailey, Cap-
tain Mass. Coast Guard, Member Scituate Committee of Inspection.
MILTON DYAS BAILEY, San Francisco, Cal. (14146), Son of James
Dyas Bailey and Maria Elizabeth Bailey; grandson of Edwin
Bailey and Margaret M. Bailey; great-grandson of Paul Bailey
and Sibyl B. Bailey ; great2-grandson of Paul Bailey, Captain Mass.
Coast Guard, Member Scituate Committee of Inspection.
WEBB WALLACE BARRETT, San Francisco, Cal. (14717)- Son of
Wallace W. Barrett and Helen S. Webb; grandson of Benjamin
L. Webb and Sarah S. Howe ; great-grandson of Timothy Howe
and Sarah Baker; great2-grandson of Timothy How, private New
York Militia, pensioned; great-great-great-grandson of Timothy
Baker, private New York Militia, pensioned.
WILLIAM S. BOGGS, San Bernardino, Cal. (14704)- Son of John
Marshall Boggs and Adaline Marshall; grandson of John S.
Marshall and Sarah Stewart ; great-grandson of John Marshall,
Captain Third Penna. Continental Line.
MAXWELL GREENE BUGBEE, Alameda, Cal. (14721). Son of John
Stephenson Bugbee and Anna Maxwell Greene ; grandson of
Nathaniel Greene and Abby Sophia Casey; great-grandson of
Christopher Greene, Member of Committee of Safety, Commander
of Kentish Guards of Rhode Island.
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ARTHUR DUDLEY CROSS, San Francisco, Cal. (14148)- Son of
William Berry Cross and Mary Ann Hilton; grandson of Samuel
Cross and Hannah Daniels; great-grandson of Abijah Cross, pri-
vate Mass. Militia.
ALONZO EUGENE DODSON, San Diego, Cal. (14139). Son of John
Howard Dodson and Mary Ann Noleman; grandson of Samuel
Dodson and Ann Corbin ; great-grandson of John Dodson, private
First Maryland Reg't.
HENRY HIRAM ELLIS, Sunol Glen, Cal. (14722). Son of Charles
Henry Ellis and Cynthia Irish Crommett; grandson of William
Ellis and Hepzibah Blackwell ; great-grandson of Thomas Ellis
(and Jerusha Clark), private Plymouth County, Mass., Militia;
great2-grandson of Israel Clark, private Plymouth County, Mass.,
Militia.
PUTNAM FIELD, San Diego, Cal. (14713)- Son of Moses Field and
Rhoda Caroline Putnam ; grandson of Moses Field, private Leon-
ard's and Wells' Mass. Reg'ts.
EDWIN FRISBY HARRIS, Alameda, Cal. (14716). Son of John
Edwin Smith Harris and Eleanor Wells Buck ; grandson of Israel
Buck and Eliza Wells ; great-grandson of Daniel Buck, Second Ma-
jor Seventeenth, King's District, New York Militia.
CHARLES WILLIAM HAWXHURST, San Francisco, Cal. (14145)-
Son of Robert Hawxhurst and Kate Stephens ; grandson of Wal-
ter Hawxhurst and Caroline Marsh; great-grandson of Harry
Kilbourn Marsh and Lucy Livingston ; grear-grandson of Isac
Livingston, Sergeant Conn. Line, pensioned.
ROBERT HAWXHURST, JR., Honolulu, H. I. (14141). Son of Robert
Hawxhurst and Kate Stephens ; grandson of Walter Hawxhurst
and Caroline Marsh; great-grandson of Harry Kilbourn Marsh
and Lucy Livingston ; great2-grandson of Isac Livingston, Sergeant
Conn. Line, pensioned.
WILLIAM PEDEN HUBBARD, San Francisco, Cal. (14720). Son of
Robert Howard Hubbard and Ida Elizabeth Peden; grandson of
Langdon Cheves Hubbard and Susan Moseley; great-grandson of
Ansel Hubbard and Minnie Rebecca Hubbard ; great2-grandson of
George Hubbard, Captain Sage's Reg't, Conn. Militia.
ROBERT DENISTON HUME, Wedderburn, Oregon (14714)- Son of
William Hume and Elizabeth W. Hume; grandson of John Hume,
Jr., and Nancy Webb; great-grandson of John Hume, private Mass.
Militia.
GEORGE ELLIOTT HUNT, San Francisco, Cal. (14144)- Son of
William B. Hunt and Frances Theller Cicott; grandson of Will-
iam B. Hunt; great-grandson of Thomas Hunt, Captain Jackson's
Continental Reg't and Third Mass. Reg't.
FRANKLIN JORDAN, Los Angeles, Cal. (14706). Son of Lawrence
Jordan and Mary Rice ; grandson of Ichabod Jordan and Mary
Coffin ; great-grandson of Tristram Jordan, Colonel Third York
County, Mass., Militia.
CHARLES LOYD KIMBALL, Healdsburg, Cal. (14702). Son of
Charles Wright Kimball and Charlott Hudson; grandson of Asa
Kimball and Lydia Waters; great-grandson of Jedediah Kimball,
private Webb's Conn. Reg't.
FRANCIS A. KIMBALL, National City, Cal. (14138). Son of Asa Kim-
ball and Hannah Little; grandson of Friend Little, private Stark's
New Hampshire Brigade.
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JOHN ALEXANDER McEWEN, Oakland, Cal. (14723). Son of John
Alexander McEwen and Helen M. Baskette; grandson of John
Alexander McEwen and Sarah Turner; great-grandson of Robert
Huston McEwen and Hetty M. Kennedy; great-grandson of Rob-
ert Campbell Kennedy and Esther Edmondson ; great2-grandson of
William Edmondson, Major and Colonel Washington County, Vir-
ginia, Troops.
WILLIAM FREDERICK MARSHALL, San Francisco, Cal. (14718).
Son of Joseph Whippey Marshall and Anna Barnard Coffin;
grandson of Henry Coffin and Phoebe Barnard ; great-grandson of
Benjamin Barnard and Anna Folger; great2-grandson of Thomas
Barnard, Commander Mass. Privateer Schooner "Poppet."
GEORGE WHITE MARSTON, San Diego, Cal. (14707). Son of George
Phillips Marston and Harriet Marston; grandson of Jeremiah
Marston and Theda Sawyer; great-grandson of Jeremiah Marston,
private New Hampshire Militia.
WILLIAM BULL MEEK, Comptonville, Cal. (14711). Son of John
Robert Meek and Caroline Barber Bull ; grandson of Russell Bull
and Clarissa Bull; great-grandson of Roger Bull, Clerk Wethers-
field, Conn., Company Lexington Alarm.
GEORGE ARTHUR MERRILL, San Francisco, Cal. (14725). Son of
Henry Franklin Merrill and Aurelia Maria Grant; grandson of
Thomas Baldwin Grant and Paulina Tolpy Ober; great-grandson
of Francis Grant and Mercy Gray ; great2-grandson of Thomas
Grant, private Mass. Continental Troops.
WILLIE LEWIS MITCHELL, Aetna Springs, Cal. (14142). Son of
Edward Henry Mitchell and Mary Amanda Gray; grandson of
David Gray and Rachel Drinkwater ; great-grandson of David
Drinkwater, Master Sloop "Fortune;" grandson of Daniel Mit-
chell and Theodosia Mason; great-grandson of Samuel Mason,
private Mass. Militia ; great2-grandson of Daniel Mitchell, private
Mass. Militia; great-grandson of John Gray, Captain Mass. Militia.
FREDERICK SCHANDER (not SCHAUDER) MOODY (3472). Son
of Ledlie Moody and Ida Schander, etc. (Correction of National
Register.)
ADAM LEE MOORE, San Francisco, Cal. (14143). Son of Clayton
Moore and Charity Oliver; grandson of Adam Lee and Lydia H.
Lufbery; great-grandson of Abraham Lufbery, Sergeant Hazen's
Continental Reg't.
JOSEPH MORA MOSS, San Francisco, Cal. (14709). Son of Theo-
dore Frelinghuysen Moss and Delia Thornton; grandson of Al-
fred Augustine Thornton and Delia Forbes; great-grandson of
George Alexander Thornton and Frances Gregory ; great-grand-
son of John Thornton, Lieutenant-Colonel Third Virginia Line.
ERNEST JULIAN MOTT, San Francisco, Cal. (14710). Son of Julius
Harris Mott and Ellen Adeline Cogswell; grandson of Milo Or-
lando Mott and Betsey Matilda Harris ; great-grandson of Richard
Harris and Hannah Howe Goodnow ; great2-grandson of Nathaniel
Harris, private Mass. Militia.
JAMES ROY MUNSELL, Oakland, Cal. (14701). Son of James Mun-
sell, Jr., and Jessie Geraldine Russell; grandson of James Mun-
sell Russell and Chloe Louise Knox; great-grandson of Ben-
jamin Harvey Russell and Maranda Munsell; great2-grandson of
Elmore Russell, Matross, Lamb's Continental Artillery, pensioned.
LOUIS AUGUSTINE MURCH, Alameda, Cal. (15401). Son of John
Haven Murch and Abbie Rebecca Harvey; grandson of Robert
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Harvey and Maria Harvey ; great-grandson of Robert Harvey and
Rebecca Plummer ; great'-grandson of Tristram Plummer, private
Mass. Troops.
LORING GALE NESMITH, Los Angeles, Cal. (14150). Son of Thomas
Nesmith and Maria Antoinette Gale; grandson of Anthony Rut-
gers Gale and Maria Dobbs Helme ; great-grandson of Henry Ar-
nold Gale and Cornelia Rutgers ; great2:grandson of Anthony Rut-
gers, member New York Provincial Congress, Captain New York
Artillery ; great-grandson of Obadiah and Ann Helme ; great2-
grandson of Phineas Helme and Mary Wisner, also of Henry
Wisner, member Continental Congress.
GEORGE COOPER PARDEE, Oakland, Cal. (14724). Son of Enoch
Homer Pardee and Mary Elizabeth ; grandson of Harry Pardee
and Fanny Benedict ; great-grandson of Ebenezer Pardee and Anna
Minor ; great2-grandson of Ebenezer Pardee, private Second Bat-
talion, Wadsworth's Conn. Brigade.
EMMET HAWKINS RIXFORD, San Francisco, Cal. (1471S). Son of
Luther Parker Rixford and Elvira Pickering; grandson of Lu-
the Rixford and Sarah Hawkins; great-grandson of William
Rixford, private Ward's Mass. Reg't, also great great-grandson of
William Rixford .private Ward's Mass. Reg't.
CLARENCE SYDNEY SCOTT, San Francisco, Cal. (14708). Son of
Thurston Chase Scott and Helen Electa Drake; grandson of Ran-
som Drake and Electa Eason Severance; great-grandson of Solo-
mon Drake and Cylinda Scott; great2-grandson of Thomas Drake.
Sergeant Massachusetts Militia and Continentals ; great-grandson of
Asaph Eason Severance ; also of Matthew Severance, private, Mass.
Militia.
GEORGE RODMAN SHREVE, San Mateo, Cal. (14719). Son of
George Choate Shreve and Rebecca Rodman Nichols Creamer;
grandson of Isaac Shreve and Mary Moulton; great-grandson of
Benjamin Shreve, recognized Quaker patriot, furnished substitute
soldier, contributed money.
WILLIAM JOSEPH SHREVE, San Francisco, Cal. (14146). Son of
William Shreve and Mary Sothern; grandson of Benjamin Shreve
and Barbara Swink ; great-grandson of Samuel Shreve, Lieutenant-
Colonel First Battalion Gloucester County, New Jersey, Militia.
LUTHER SKELLENGER, Simi, Cal. (14705). Son of Elisha
Skellenger and Zilla Guerin; grandson of Elisha P. Skellenger,
private New Jersey Militia.
HAROLD EDWARD SMITH, San Francisco, Cal. (14140). Son of
Edward Clarence Smith and Virginia Allison Joachin; grandson
of Charles A. Smith and Matilda Lasell; great-grandson of Ches-
ter Lasell and Nancy Manning; great2-grandson of Nathaniel
Manning, private Conn. Militia.
CHARLES WHITCOMB TUTTLE, Colusa, Cal. (14703). Son of
Adolphus Darwin Tuttle and Lucy M. Bigelow; grandson of
Aschel Bigelow and Dorcas Freeman; great-grandson of Andrew
Bigelow, private Mass. Militia.
SHIRLEY CYRUS WALKER, San Francisco, Cal. (14147). Son of
William Devereux Walker and Margaret Hall ; grandson of Cyrus
B. and Harriet A. Walker; great-grandson of Joseph Taylor and
Achiah Ketcham; great2-grandson of John and Rebekah Ketcham,
also of Zophar Ketcham, private New Hampshire Militia.
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COLORADO SOCIETY.
GEORGE K. ANDRUS, Denver, Colo. (13964). Son of Alanson E.
Andrus and Eliza Cole; grandson of Ebenezer Andrus and Sarah
Close; great-grandson of David Andrus, private Conn. State Troops,
pensioned.
EDWARD REYNOLDS CHEW, Pueblo, Colo. (13958). Son of Sam-
uel H. Chew and Emily Higbee; grandson of Samuel Chew and
Ann H. Payne; great-grandson of Samuel Chew, Captain Third
Maryland Line.
ROBERT A. LEIPER, Denver, Colo. (13967). Son of James Leiper and
Elizabeth M. Hanna; grandson of Hugh Leiper and Esther Harper;
great-grandson of James Leiper, private Penna. Frontier Rangers.
BARTON LOWE, Denver, Colo. (13965). Son of Isaac Lawson Lowe
and Charlotte Weatherby ; grandson of Benjamin Weatherby and
Rachael Smith ; great-grandson of David Weatherby, Captain, Som-
ers' Battalion New Jersey State Troops.
HERBERT A. D. LOWE, Denver, Colo. (13966). Son of Barton Lowe
and Rose Abbott ; grandson of Isaac Lawson Lowe and Charlotte
Weatherby ; great-grandson of Benjamin Weatherby and Rachael
Smith ; great2-grandson of David Weatherby, Captain, Somers' Bat-
talion, New Jersey State Troops.
WILLIAM KIRKWOOD ROBINSON, Denver, Colo. (13970). Son
of Robert Kirkwood Robinson and Abigail Matilda Murphy ; grand-
son of John A. Murphy and Nancy Clarkson ; great-grandson of
Andrew Clarkson and Abigail Laird; great2-grandson of John
Laird and Sarah Finley; great3-grandson of John Finley, Major,
Fourth York County, Penna., Battalion, and Continental Line.
CONNECTICUT SOCIETY.
DAVID ROYAL ALLING, New Haven, Conn. (14698). Son of David
Alling and Anna Beers; grandson of Jonathan Alling and Su-
sannah Piatt; great-grandson of Ebenezer Alling, Corporal Sixth
Conn. Line.
GEORGE ALVERSON ALLING, New Haven, Conn. (15429). Son
of George Alling and Mary E. Alverson; grandson of Thomas
Alling and Lydia Johnson; great-grandson of Ebenezer Ailing,
Corporal Sixth Conn. Line.
EDWARD IRVING ATWATER, New Haven, Conn. (14678). Son of
William J. Atwater and Harriet Barnes; grandson of William
Atwater and Eliza Ford; great-grandson of Jared Atwater and
Eunice Dickerman ; great~-grandson of David Attwater, volunteer in
New Haven Defence, 1779, Member of Town Committee.
HARRY ELIHU ATWATER, Cranford, N. J. (14262). Son of David
Atwater and Emily Maxwell ; grandson of Jared Atwater and
Eunice Dickman; great-grandson of David Atwater, volunteer in
New Haven Defence, 1779, Member of Town Committee.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, New York, N. Y. (14684). Son of John W.
Bill and Prudence Gallup; grandson of Jacob Gallup and Par-
thenia Morgan ; great-grandson of Jacob Gallup and Rebecca Mor-
gan ; great2-grandson of Nathan Gallup, Colonel Twenty-seventh
Conn. Foot, Deputy Conn. General Assembly.
WILLIAM JUSTUS BRADLEY, New Haven, Conn. (14689). Son of
Russell Bradley and Huldah Maria McNeil; grandson of Justus
Bradley and Sarah Hayes ; great-grandson of Ezekiel Hayes, Col-
lector of Army Supply Tax.
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FREDERICK C. BURROUGHS, Bridgeport, Conn. (14271). Son of
William Palmer Burroughs and Sarah R. McCulley; grandson of
Henry C. Burroughs and Ophelia Hurd; great-grandson of Ste-
phen Burroughs and Mary Jennings; great2-grandson of Stephen
Burroughs, Captain Conn. Militia, Member Conn. General As-
sembly.
GEORGE RILEY BURTON, New Haven, Conn. (14272). Son of John
Daniels Burton and Sophronia Weed ; grandson of John Burton
and Betsey Daniels; great-grandson of Job Daniels, private, Wol-
cott's Conn. Reg't, pensioned.
ERICSSON FOOTE BUSHNELL, New York City (14273). Son of
Cornelius Scranton Bushnell and Emilie Fowler Clark; grand-
son of Nathan Bushnell and Chloe Scranton; great-grandson of
Nathan Bushnell, private, Wolcott's Conn. Reg't; also of Theophi-
lus Scranton and Abigail Lee; great2-grandson of Jonathan Lee,
private Conn. Coast Guards.
WINTHROP GRANT BUSHNELL, New Haven, Conn. (14274). Son
of Cornelius Scranton Bushnell and Emilie Fowler Clark;
grandson of Nathan Bushnell and Chloe Scranton; great-grand-
son of Nathan Bushnell, private Wolcott's Conn. Reg't; also of
Theophilus Scranton and Abigail Lee; great2-grandson of Jona-
than Lee, private Conn. Coast Guards.
ALBERT STEVENS CHAMBERLIN, Hartford, Conn. (14263). Son
of S. D. Chamberlin and Sarah Elizabeth Quintard; grandson of
Henry Harrison Quintard and Clarissa Grant; great-grandson of
James Quintard, private, Conn. Line, pensioned ; also of Hamilton
Grant, private Conn. State Troops.
FRANK DOOLITTLE CHAMBERLIN, Hartford, Conn. (14264). Son
of Samuel Doolittle Chamberlin and Sarah E. Quintard; grand-
son of Henry Harrison Quintard and Clarissa Grant ; great-grand-
son of James Quintard, private Conn. Line, pensioned ; also of Ham-
ilton Grant, private Conn. State Troops.
ALFRED SELDEN CLAPP, South Meriden, Conn. (14679)- Son of
John Selden Clapp and Julia Talcott ; grandson of Jared Goodrich
Talcott and Electra Bissell ; great-grandson of George Talcott
and Abigail Goodrich ; great2-grandson of Elizur Talcott, Colonel
Sixth Conn. Militia.
EDWARD PAYSON CONE, New York, N. Y. (4053). Son of Silas
Cone and Sarah Hayes ; grandson of Daniel Hurlbut Cone, private
Second Conn. Line.
EDWARD HANKS CROWELL, Hartford, Conn. (15426). Son of
Albert Butler Crowell and Caroline Augusta Hanks ; grandson of
Lucien B. Hanks and Mary Dexter; great-grandson of Truman
Hanks and Rebeca Freeman; great2-grandson of Benjamin Hanks,
drummer, Putnam's Third Conn. Reg't.
LEWIS BEERS CURTIS, Bridgeport, Conn. (14275)- Son of Lewis
Agur Curtis and Emma Sophia Steele; grandson of Roderick Cad-
well Steele and Delia Augusta Perry; great-grandson of Charles
Benjamin Perry and Frances Beers; great2-grandson of Philo
Perry and Sarah Benjamin; great3-grandson of George Benjamin,
Captain Fifth Conn. Reg't, Member Stratford Committee of Safety.
NELSON DRAKE FORD, Winchester, Conn. (14265). Son of Harvey
Ford and Mary Ann Drake; grandson of Noah Drake and Polly
Fyler; great-grandson of Noah Drake, private Cook's Conn. Reg't,
pensioned.
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WILLIAM ADAMS GALPIN, New Haven, Conn. (14680). Son of Le-
man Galpin and Electa Euphrasia Adams ; grandson of Pettit
Galpin and Laura Hurd ; great-grandson of Peter Hurd and Sarah
Warner; great2-grandson of Solomon Hurd, Cornet Fifth Conn.
Light Horse.
LEVI CARROLL GILBERT, New Haven, Conn. (14690). Son of Levi
Gilbert and Clymena S. Allen; grandson of Isaac Gilbert, private
Conn. Continental Line, pensioned.
EDWARD FREDERICK HARMON, New Haven, Conn. (15430). Son
of George M. Harmon and Mary A. Baldwin; grandson of Darius
Baldwin and Thirza Dorman ; great-grandson of Amos Dorman
and Hannah Baldwin ; great2-grandson of Silas Baldwin, private
Sixth Conn. Line.
HARRY HINMAN HEMINWAY, Watertown, Conn. (14685). Son
of Merritt Heminway and Edla H. Heminway; grandson of Mer-
ritt Heminway and Mary Ann Buell ; great-grandson of Jonathan
Buell and Abigail Bush ; great2-grandson of Peter Buell, Ensign
Seventeenth Conn. Militia.
NORTON ROYCE HOTCHKISS, New Haven, Conn. (15431). Son of
Seth Hotchkiss and Rebecca Lucinda Blount Steele; grandson of
Israel Hotchkiss and Martha Royce; great-grandson of Nathaniel
Royce, Ensign Tenth Conn. Militia.
JAMES ASH WORTH HOWARTH, New Haven, Conn. (14266). Son
of Thomas Hodgson Howarth and Miriam Dayton Tuttle; grand-
son of Lyman Tuttle and Miriam Dayton; great-grandson of
Jonathan Dayton, Captain Second Conn. Reg't, "Alarm List."
HERBERT MERTON KNAPP, Bridgeport, Conn. (15427). Son of
Rufus Knapp and Caroline Trubee ; grandson of John Knapp and
Esther Turney, also of Samuel Trubee and Elizabeth Curtiss; great-
grandson of Phineas Curtiss and Huldah Gilbert ; great2-grandson
of Joseph Curtiss, Member Committee of Inspection ar>d Observa-
tion; great-grandson of Abel Turney, private Conn. Continental
Troops, pensioned, also of John Knapp, private Waterbury, Conn.,
Continental Reg't.
JOHN FORD LOVEJOY, New Haven, Conn. (14681). Son of Francis
M. Lovejoy and Lydia Henderson ; grandson of Daniel Lovejoy and
Betsey Gilbert; great-grandson of Jabez Mix Gilbert and Clara
Bouton ; great2-grandson of Isaac Gilbert, private Conn. Militia,
pensioned.
JOHN BARNES McQUEEN, New Haven, Conn. (14692). Son of Sam-
uel McQueen and Susan Elizabeth Barnes ; grandson of James Mc-
Queen and Lydia Tyler ; great-grandson of William McQueen, Lieu-
tenant Conn. Sloop "Guilford."
GEORGE BUSHNELL MARTIN, New Haven, Conn. (14691). Son of
Milton 'Martin and Caroline Hoffman ; grandson of John Martin
and Cyrena Durham; great-grandson of John Martin and Michael
Durham, privates Sixth Dutchess County, New York, Militia.
FRANK HERBERT MASON, New Haven, Conn. (14267). Son of
Herbert Mason and Minnie Newell ; grandson of Nelson C. New-
ell and Mary Chandler; great-grandson of Cyrus Newell and Ce-
lina Sessions ; great2-grandson of Stephen New^M, private and fifer
Mass. Militia.
LEONARD JONES NICKERSON, West Cornwall, Conn. (14268). Son
of Orson Nickerson and Julia Dibble ; grandson of Seth Dibble
and Diana C. Dibble ; great-grandson of Israel Dibble, private Whit-
ing's Conn. Reg't., pensioned.
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WILLIAM OSMOND PARDEE, New Haven, Conn. (14686). Son of
Charles Hezekiah Pardee and Anna Eliza Austin; grandson of
Laban Pardee and Mary Thompson ; great-grandson of Joseph
Pardee, private Conn. Artillery and State Guards.
FREDERICK MERRICK PEASLEY, Waterbury, Conn. (15432). Son
of Jacob Ashton Peasley and Jennie Anderson ; grandson of
Chalkley Peasley and Margaret Ashton ; great-grandson of
Thomas Ashton and Martha Marsh ; great'-grandson of William
Marsh, Captain Penna. Troops, widow pensioned.
GEORGE SHERMAN PIERPONT, Plymouth, Conn. (14693)- Son of
George Pierpont and Ellen Amelia Titus Hazen ; grandson of Sher-
man Pierpont and Sidnia Humiston; great-grandson of Jesse Hu-
miston, private First Conn. Militia, pensioned.
CHARLES EDWARD RUDD, Lakeville, Conn. (14687). Son of Will-
iam Beardslee Rudd and Maria Coffing Holley ; grandson of Alex-
ander Hamilton Holley and M^rcia Coffing ; great-grandson of
John Milton Holley and Sally Jrorter; grear-grandson of Joshua
Porter, Lieutenant-Colonel Conn. Militia, Member Conn. General
Assembly.
CHARLES WOOLSEY SCRANTON, New Haven, Conn. (14676). Son
of Sereno Hamilton Scranton and Susan Dowd; grandson of
Jonathan Scranton and Roxanna Crampton; great-grandson of
Theophilus Scranton and Abigail Lee; great2-grandson of
Johnathan Lee, private Conn. Coast Guards ; great-grandson of
Ashbell Crampton and Julia Munger; grear-grandson of James
Hunger, Captain Worthington's Seventh Conn. Militia.
WILLIAM DOWD SCRANTON, New Haven, Conn. (14677). Son of
Charles Woolsey Scranton and Marie Etta Palmer; grandson of
Sereno Hamilton Scranton and Susan Dowd, also of Henry Pal-
mer and Irene Averill; great-grandson of Jonathan Scranton and
Roxanna Crampton; great2-grandson of Theophilus Scranton and
Abigail Lee ; great3-grandson of Jonathan Lee, private Conn. Coast
Guards; great'-grandson of Ashbell Crampton and Julia Munger;
great3-grandson of James Munger, Captain Worthington's Seventh
Conn. Militia ; great-grandson of Daniel Averill and Abigail
Foote; great'-grandson of Daniel Averill, fifer Seventh Conn. Line,
also of Phineas Foote and Irene Hoadley; great3-grandson of
Abraham Hoadley, private Ward's Conn. Reg't.
FRANK SEWARD, New Haven, Conn. (14695). Son of Moses Seward
and Clarissa Etheridge Colburn; grandson of Daniel Colburn and
Fanny Etheridge; great-grandson of Daniel Colburn, private Second
Conn. Continental Reg't.
HERBERT FRANK SEWARD, New Haven, Conn. (15428). Son of
Frank Seward and Minerva Amanda Parmelee ; grandson of Moses
Seward and Clarrissa Etheridge Colburn ; great-grandson of Daniel
Colburn IV and Fanny Etheridge; great-2grandson of Daniel
colburn IJI ' , private Second Continental Reg't.
EMORY CORNELIUS SHALER, Hartford, Conn. (15433). Son of
Rollo Leroy Shaler and Hancy Mary Hills, grandson of Bela Rob-
bins Shaler and Maroah Smith Dickinson, also of Wells Jacob
Hills and Caroline Chapman ; great-grandson of David and Beth-
sheba Dickinson; great2-grandson of Obadiah Dickinson, private
Wadsworth's Brigade, Conn. Troops; great-grandson of Jacob and
Mary Hills; great2-grandson of Elijah Hills, private Conn. Troops.
CHARLES HANNO SMITH, Collinsville, Conn. (14688). Son of Henry
A. Smith and Eletheah L. Hildreth; grandson of Wheeler M.
Smith and Melinda Fellows; great-grandson of Jedediah Smith.
Corporal Burrall's Conn. Regt.
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HENRY HERBERT SMITH, New Haven, Conn. (14694). Son of
William Otis Smith and Susan C. Hoyt ; grandson of John Smith
and Lovia Scott; great-grandson of Stephen Smith and Hannah
Hill ; great2-grandson of Stephen Smith, Captain Mass. Militia and
Militia Naval Officer at Machias.
JOHN AUSTIN STARKWEATHER, South Willington, Conn. (14269).
Son of Henry H. Starkweather and Sarah Maria Fox; grandson
of David Austin Fox and Sarah Hough Waterman ; great-grandson
of Nehemiah Waterman and Sarah Hough ; great2-grandson of
Nehemiah Waterman, Captain Twentieth Conn. Militia.
EDWARD TAYLOR, New Haven, Conn. (14270). Son of George W.
Taylor and Hannah Foote ; grandson of Ephraim Foote and Polly
Hobart; great-grandson of Mason Hobart, private Conn. Troops,
pensioned.
THOMAS BRINKERHOFF TRUMBULL, Hartford, Conn. (14682).
Son of Jonathan Trumbull and Harriet Roosevelt Richards;
grandson of Daniel Lathrop Trumbull and Alexandrine Navarre
Wilson ; great-grandson of Jonathan George Washington Trum-
Bull and Jane Eliza Lathrop ; great2-grandson of David Trumbull
(and Sarah Backus), -Deputy Commissary; great3-grandson of
Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut ; great2-grandson of
Daniel Lathrop and Betsy Turner; great3-grandson of Philip
Turner, Surgeon-General of Hospitals, Eastern Department.
GEORGE SHERMAN TURNER, Stepney Depot, Conn. (14696). Son
of David Turner and Rhoda Griffith ; grandson of Joshua Grif-
fith and Tanson Birdsall ; great-grandson of Joshua Griffith, pri-
vate Ludington's Regt, Dutchess County, New York, Militia.
GEORGE NEWELL WAKELEE, Southbury Conn. (14697) Son of
George Wakelee and Jane Wooster; grandson of Thomas Bishop
Wooster and Lenora Mallory; great-grandson of Thomas Wooster
and Elizabeth Bishop ; great2-grandson of John Bishop, private
Gilley's First New Hampshire Battalion.
ELISHA HARRIS WEAVER, New Haven, Conn. (15434). Son of Jabez
Weaver and Mary Lois Wilbur; grandson of Daniel Weaver and
Sally Howes ; great-grandson of Caleb Weaver, private Rhode Island
State Troops, pensioned.
ROLLIN SIMMONS WOODRUFF, New Haven, Conn. (14683). Son
of Jeremiah Woodruff and Clarissa Thompson ; grandson of Anson
Thompson and Clarissa Brown ; great-grandson of John Brown, pri-
vate Conn. Line, pensioned.
DELAWARE SOCIETY.
JOHN BANCROFT, Wilmington, Del. (14390). Son of Napoleon Ban-
croft and Isabella Girvan Maree ; grandson of John Bancroft and
Susanna Brookes; great-grandson of Edward Brookes, Lieutenant
Penna. Troops.
TRUEMAN W. CAMPBELL, Wilmington, Del. (14393). Son of Will-
iam W. Campbell and Susan Belt; grandson of Hugh Campbell
and Rachel Broom Lyon; great-grandson of Samuel Lyon and Es-
ther Willis Broom; great2-grandson of Jacob Broom, Civil Engi-
neer and Cartographer, Delaware Service.
GEORGE S. CAPELLE, Wilmington, Del. (14391). Son of Marcus Eu-
gene Capelle and Catherine Ann Capelle ; grandson of James Eu-
gene Capelle, Surgeon in Navy.
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GEORGE ARMSTRONG ELLIOTT, Wilmington, Del. (14386). Son of
John Cloud Elliott and Lavinia Piatt; grandson of John Platt
and Mary Jackson; great-grandson of John Platt, Lieutenant Hall's
Delaware Continental Reg't.
GEORGE FRANK GOOTEE, Clayton, Del. (14387). Son of Benjamin
S. Gootee and Mary Elizabeth Collins ; grandson of Edmund R. Col-
lins and Rachel Moor; great-grandson of William Collins and
Anne Bellack ; great'-grandson of Thomas Collins, Brigadier-General
Delaware Militia.
CHARLES ST. CLAIR LEDNUM, Wilmington, Del. (14389). Son of
William St. Clair Lednum and Laura Townsend; grandson of
Edmund Townsend and Arianna Clayton ; great-grandson of James
Clayton and Emeline Bayard Lewis ; great2-grandson of Richard
Clayton and Mary Richardson ; great3-grandson of Joshua Clayton,
Surgeon, Colonel on Washington's Staff.
LEWIS B. MORROW, Wilmington, Del. (14392). Son of James Mor-
row and Bethia F. Eves ; grandson of William D. Eves and Bethia
Miller Faris; great-grandson of Jacob Fearis, Captain Delaware
Militia.
JAMES H. HUGHES, Dover, Del. ( 14395). Son of Eben Hughes and
Rebecca Hurd; grandson of James Hurd and Mary Longfellow;
great-grandson of Jonathan Longfellow and Ester Griffith ; great2-
grandson of James Griffith, private First Maryland Reg't, also of
Thomas Longfellow, private Fifth Maryland Reg't.
GEORGE W. SPARKS, Wilmington, Del. ( 14394). Son of George W.
Sparks and Mary E. Moore ; grandson of James Van Dyke Moore
an* Rachel M. Murphey; great-grandson of James Moore and Mil-
cah Ann Van Dyke; great2-grandson of James Moore, Captain,
Brevet-Major, Delaware Continental Reg't.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY.
GRIFFITH EVANS ABBOTT, Washington, D. C. (14907)- Son of
Charles F. Abbott and Elizabeth Evans ; grandson of Griffith Evans,
Assistant Medical Purveyor, Penna. Troops.
RICHARD C. ADAMS, Washington, D. C. (14656). Son of William
Adams and Kate Woodfield ; grandson of Mut-tee-tut-teese Wil-
son and Nancy Connor, parents of William Adams; great-grandson
of William Connor and Elizabeth Connor; great2-grandson of
Neet-What-Wes and Ah-ke-che-lung-un-a-qua ; greats-grandson of
White Eyes, alias Wi-co-ca-lind, Head War Chief of Delaware In-
dians, "took up the hatchet" for the United States and brought
about treaty of Sept. 17, 1778, giving free passing of American troops
to Northwest Territory.
JAMES B. ALBRIGHT, Washington, D. C. (14659)- Son of Thomas J.
Albright and Ann Maria Beadle ; grandson of Peter Albright and
Mary Haines ; great-grandson of Henry Haines, Ensign German
Battalion Penna. Continental Troops.
CHARLES BROOKS BAILEY, Washington, D. C. (14510). Son of
Joseph Stockbridge Bailey and Isabella Wilson Dicks; grandson
of Lebbeus Bailey and Sarah Sylvester Myrick ; great-grandson of
John Bailey, Colonel Second Mass. Continental Reg't.
JAMES ARCHIBALD BAILEY, Washington, D. C. (14922). Son of
Sidney Porter Bailey and Elnora Anderson; grandson of Cephas
Bailey and Releif Harris, also of Solomon Anderson, Jr., and Har-
riett Weightman ; great-grandson of William Bailey, drummer Six-
teenth Mass. Line, also of Solomon Anderson and Anna Warren ;
great2-grandson of Moses Warren, private Second Conn. Line.
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GEORGE M. BECKETT, Wheeling, W. Va. (14911). Son of Josiah
Bee Beckett and Sybella Daniels Horner; grandson of Malachi
Horner and Sarah Daniels ; great-grandson of John Daniels and
Grace Scott; great2-grandson of John Daniels (and Mary New-
comb), Captain First Battalion Cumberland County, New Jersey,
Troops ; great3-grandson of Silas Newcomb, Brigadier-General, New
Jersey Militia.
ADOLPHUS BRUNER BENNETT, Washington, D. C. (14520). Son
of Ebenezer Hilton Bennett and Susan Lyon; grandson of Silas
Bennett and Elizabeth Hilton; great-grandson of Daniel Bennett,
private, Elmore's Conn. Reg't, pensioned.
ROBERT ROOT BENNETT, Washington, D. C. (14515). Son of Will-
iam H. Bennett and Helen Louise Root; grandson of Aaron Root
and Harriet Kingman ; great-grandson of Moses Root, Corporal,
Brown's Berkshire County, Mass., Reg't ; grandson of Henry Ben-
nett and Sarah Ann Tracy ; great-grandson of Nebediah Wescott
Bennett and Catherine Combs; great2-grandson of Robert Bennett
Lieutenant First Smithfield, Rhode Island, Company.
EDWARD HAMILTON BERRY, Cincinnati, Ohio (14662). Son of
John Hamilton Berry and Grace Small ; grandson of John Henry
Small and Mary Ann Cunningham; great-grandson of Archibald
Cunningham and Janet MacDonald ; great2-grandson of John Mac-
Donald and Lucy Tuell ; great3-grandson of Roderic Tuell, Artificer
Light Artillery; great*-grandson of William Tuell, private Clagett's
Maryland Company, killed at battle of Germantown, 1777.
ARTHUR BLANCH ARD, Washington, D. C. (14902). Son of Ebenezer
S. Blanchard and Catherine Davidson; grandson of John Blan-
chard and Sarah L. Blanchard ; great-grandson of Jeremiah Blan-
chard and Martha Hutchins ; great2-grandson of Jeremiah Blan-
chard, Captain Twenty-fourth Conn. Militia.
LEWIS W. BOODY, Washington, D. C. (14512). Son of Daniel Boody
and Sarah A. Haupt; grandson of John Haupt and Rebecca N.
Haupt ; great-grandson of George Haupt ; great2-grandson of John
M. Houpt, private, De La Pert's Company, Col. Armand's Con-
tinental Legion, pensioned.
LEROY STAFFORD BOYD, Washington, D. C. (14925)- Son of David
French Boyd and Esther Wright; grandson of Thomas Jefferson
Boyd and Minerva Ann French; great-grandson of Thomas Duck-
ett Boyd and Mary Magruder ; great2-grandson of Thomas Boyd,
Lieutenant Fifth Maryland Line.
JOHN INGALLS BROWN, Washington, D. C. (14667). Son of J. War-
ren Brown and Ruth F. Hopkins; grandson of Joshua Hopkins
and Hannah Rich ; great-grandson of John Hopkins and Ruth
Gross ; great2-grandson of Benjamin Gross, private Mass. Continen-
tal Troops, pensioned.
JOHN ARMISTEAD BROWNING, Jr., Washington, D. C. (14654).
Son of John Armistead Browning and Mary Lewis Willis ; grand-
son of George Willis and Martha Payne Waring Faunt Le Roy,
also of Willis Browning and Elizabeth Coleman White; great-
grandson of Byrd Charles Willis and Mary Field Lewis; great2-
grandson of George Lewis, Captain Third Continental Dragoons ;
great-grandson of Charles Browning, Captain Virginia Line, also of
John Armistead White and Sarah Ann Robertson; great-grand-
son of John Armistead White, Sr., Major at Valley Forge and
Yorktown.
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LOUIS DALE CARMAN, Washington, D. C. (14917). Son of Ezra
Ayres Carman and Ada Salmon ; grandson of Melancthon Free-
man Carman and Ann Maria Ayres ; great-grandson of Ezra Ayres
and Jane Lott ; great'-grandson of Ellis Ayres, private Middlesex
County, New Jersey, Militia.
FRANCIS JOSEPH MARIA CARMODY, Washington, D. C. (14665).
son of John Phillip Carmody and Marian Doyle; grandson of
James Doyle and Ann Keane; great-grandson of John Doyle, Cap-
tain Eleventh Penna. Line.
JOHN DOYLE CARMODY, Washington D. C (14663). Son of John
Phillip Carmody and Marian Doyle; grandson of James Doyle and
Ann Keane ; great-grandson of John Doyle, Captain Eleventh Penna.
Line.
ISAAC EDWARDS CLARKE, Washington, D. C. (1972) (Supple-
mental). Grandson of Isaac Clarke, Sergeant, Mass. Militia; great-
grandson of Josiah Clarke, private, Mass. Militia.
JEFFERSON CHANDLER, Washington, D. C. (15382). Son of Alden
Chandler and Mary Sinclair ; grandson of Joshua Sinclair, fifer
Tenth New Hampshire Reg't ; great-grandson of Richard Sinclair,
Major Tenth New Hampshire Reg't.
FREDERICK AUSTIN COOLIDGE, Washington, D. C. (15379). Son
of George Austin Coolidge and Harriet Abbot Lincoln; grandson
of Frederick Walker Lincoln and Emeline Hall ; great-grandson
of Louis Lincoln and Mary H. Knight; great2-grandson of Amos
(and Deborah Revere) Lincoln, Captain, Craft's Artillery Reg't;
great5-grands >n of Paul Revere, made midnight ride to Lexington,
April 18, 1775, Lieutenant-Colonel Mass. Artillery.
MONTGOMERY E. DANFORTH, Washington, D. C. (14910). Son of
Roderick F. Danforth and Marietta L. Ward ; grandson of Charles
Danforth and Charity F. Foster; great-grandson of Keys Dan-
forth and Mary Bushnell ; great2-grandson of Jonathan Danforth,
Captain Mass. Militia.
CHARLES HENRY DAVIDGE, Washington, D. C. (14658). Son of
Charles Henry Davidge and Agnes Singleton Sanders; grandson
of John S. Sanders and Mary C. Gray; great-grandson of John
Sanders and Sarah Grant; great2-grandson of William Grant, front-
ier soldier at siege of Bryan's Station.
MERRITT LEWIS DAWKINS, Washington, D. C. (14653). Son of
John Richard Dawkins and Christine Candace ; grandson of James
Dawkins and Mary H. Dawkins; great-grandson of John Daw-
kins ; great2-grandson of John Dawkins, private North Carolina
Militia, pensioned.
LEONARD DAY, Washington, D. C. (14924). Son of G. F. P. Day and
Marion F. Wilder; grandson of Charles L. Wilder and Harriet E.
Harris; great-grandson of John Wilder and Sarah Whipple; great2-
grandson of Moses Wilder, Corporal. Whitcomb's Mass. Reg't.
JOHN DYSART, Mt. St. Alban, D. C. (14652). Son of Thomas Perry
Dysart and Louisa Tannehill ; grandson of Isaiah Tannehill and
Caroline Campbell ; great-grandson of John Campbell and Mary
Lyle; great2-grandson of Aaron Lyle, private Northampton County,
Penna. Militia and Flying Camp.
HENRY SYLVANUS EPES, Washington, D. C. (14517). Son of Will-
iam J. Epes and Delila Green ; grandson of David Green and Mar-
tha Talmadge ; great-grandson of Pliny (and Mercy Upham) Green,
private Mass. Militia; great2-grandson of David Green. Colonel Sec-
ond Middlesex, Mass.. Minute Men.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 245
WESTON FLINT, Washington, D. C. (14669). Son of Nicholas Flint
and Phebe Burt Willoughby ; grandson of Robert Flint, private First
Tryon County, New York, Militia.
FLOYD THOMAS FROST, Washington, D. C. (15384). Son of Floyd
Thomas Frost and Sophia Oakes Morse ; grandson of John Frost
and Cornelia Delavan; great-grandson of Samuel Delavan, Captain,
Third Westchester County, New York, Militia.
ALBERT J. GORE, Washington, D. C. (14513). Son of A. Washington
Gore and Martha Jane Neil ; grandson of Hugh Neil and Mary Ann
Neiper ; great-grandson of Thomas Neil, Lieutenant, Watson's Bat-
talion Lancaster County, Penna., Troops.
FREDERICK WORDEN MONTROSE GRAHAM, Washington, D. C.
(l53&9)- Son of Curtis Burr Graham and Hannah Moore; grand-
son of Henry Graham and Sarah Graham ; great-grandson of Isaac
Gilbert Graham, Surgeon's Mate Mass. Line, Assistant-Surgeon Con-
tinental Army ; great2-grandson of Andrew Graham, Surgeon Conn.
Troops, captured at White Plains.
FOSTER REGNIER GREENE, Washington, D. C. (14661). Son of
William Stedman Greene and Mary Elizabeth White; grandson
of Pardon Augustus White and Elizabeth Wightman Spink ; great-
grandson of John Spink and Lucy Eldred; great2-grandson of
Daniel Eldred and Mary Phillips; great3-grandson of Samuel
Phillips, Major, Topham's Rhode Island Battalion and Naval Com-
mander.
WALTER DAVIS GROESBECK, Washington, D. C. (14918). Son of
Daniel V. H. Groesbeck and Lavinia Miller ; grandson of Peter W.
Groesbeck and Hannah Van Valkenburgh ; great-grandson of Wal-
ter Groesbeck and Rachel Van Slyck ; great2-grandson of Peter W .
Groesbeck, private Third, Albany County, New York, Militia.
ROBERT THOMAS HILL, Washington, D. C. (14672). Son of Robert
Thomas Hill and Catherine Stout ; grandson of Samuel Van Dyke
Stout and Catherine Tannehill ; great-grandson of Abraham Stout,
Lieutenant, Brevet-Captain, Third New Jersey Battalion, prisoner,
also of John Tannehill, Paymaster, Lieutenant Ninth Virginia Reg't.
*WALTER JAMES HOFFMAN (1905)- (Correction of Register.)
Great-grandson of Peter Weida and Charlotte Stump.
HENRY P. HOLDEN, Washington, D. C. (14671). Son of Amos Prich-
ard Holden and Mary J. Goodman ; grandson of Moses Goodman
and Prudence H. Goodman ; great-grandson of Moses Goodman,
Lieutenant, Huntington's Conn. Reg't, pensioned.
NORMAN HUTCHINSON, U. S. Legation, Santiago, Chile (14912).
Son of Henry Loring Hutchinson and Josephine Lucinda Rees ;
grandson of Arnold Hutchinson and Amelia Parker; great-grand-
son of Jonas Parker and Ruth Farmer ; great2-grandson of Edmund
Parker, private Mass. Militia and Line.
GEORGE RUSSELL IDE, Washington, D. C. (14901). Son of Hiram
Russell Ide and Sarah Wylie; grandson of Russell B. Ide and
Armonella Lawton ; great-grandson of Ezra Ide and Elizabeth Hall ;
great2-grandson of Ichabod Ide and Mary Baldwin ; great3-grandson
of Ichabod Ide, Corporal, Hathaway's Mass. Reg't.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER JACK, Washington, D. C. (14673)- Son of
William Alexander Jack and Mary Ann Rodman; grandson of
Christopher Gardiner Rodman and Nancy Taber ; great-grandson
of Clark Rodman and Mary Gardiner; great2-grandson of Chris-
topher Gardiner, Captain Rhode Island Line, pensioned.
246 NATIONAL SOCIETY
CHARLES PORTER JACOBS, Washington, D. C (14666). Son of
John E. Jacobs and Abigail Williams; grandson of Dat Williams
and Mary Wright; great-grandson of Elijah Williams, Sergeant,
Parson's Reg't, Conn. Line.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOHNSON, Washington, D. C. (14905). Son
of John Jackson Johnson and Elizabeth Coons; grandson of Fred-
erick Coons, private Sixth Virginia Line, pensioned.
FRANK WARREN JOHNSON, Washington, D. C. (14675). Son of
Nathan S. Johnson and Emeline Adelia Cogswell; grandson of
David Cogswell and Hannah Haskell ; great-grandson of Joseph
Cogswell and Abagail Cleveland; great2-grandson of John Cleve-
land, Chaplain Seventeenth Mass. Militia.
JAMES SWAN BARTON KEY, Washington, D. G (14525). Son of
Philip Barton Key and Ellen Swan ; grandson of Francis Scott
Key and Mary Taylor Lloyd; great-grandson of John Ross Key,
Captain Independent Rifles of Frederick County, Maryland.
FRANCIS RANSOM LANE, Brooklyn, N. Y. (14915). Son of John
Godfrey Lane and Anne Caroline Anderson; grandson of Thomas
Anderson and Lavinia Eaton; great-grandson of Henry Eaton and
Hannah Eaton ; great2-grandson of Jesse Eaton, father of Hannah,
private New Hampshire troops, also of Ephravm Eaton, father of
Henry, signed Association pledge; great-grandson of Samuel An-
derson and Anna Sargent; greaf-grandson of Thomas Anderson,
private New Hampshire troops, also of Moses Sargent, private,
Nichols' New Hampshire Reg't.
JOSEPH MELVILLE McCOY, Washington, D. C. (14657). Son of
John W. McCoy and Delia M. Evans ; grandson of Rawley Evans
and Maria C. Dering; great-grandson of John Evans, Colonel Vir-
ginia troops, pensioned ; great-grandson of Henry Dering and Re-
becca Musser; great2-grandson of George Musser, Captain First
Lancaster County, Penna., Battalion.
CHARLES CLAGETT MARBURY, Washington, D. C. (14514). Son of
Fendall Marbury and Sarah Clagett Berry; grandson of William
Luke Marbury and Susan Fitzhugh Fendall; great-grandson of
William Marbury and Jane Contee Magruder ; great2-grandson of
Luke Marbury, Member Committees of Observation and Corre-
spondence, Colonel Maryland Militia.
FRANK BOSTICK MARTIN, Washington, D. C (14651). Son of John
Vincent Martin and Mary Harriet Bostick; grandson of William
Dickinson Martin and Harrietta Williamson; great-grandson of
John Martin, Captain Second South Carolina Line, prisoner. •
ARBA BRYAN MARVIN, Washington, D. C. (15381). Son of Henry
Herbert Marvin and Rosaltha Bryan; grandson of Nathaniel
Bryan and Mary Marvin; great-grandson of Josiah Bryan and
Eliza Wood ; great2-grandson of Samuel Bryan, private Albany
County, New York Militia.
JOHN PARKER HALE MASON, Accotink, Va. (145 18). Son of
Samuel Worcester Mason and Emily Osgood; grandson of Tuf-
ton Mason and Sarah Gilman; great-grandson of Jeremiah Mason,
Lieutenant-Colonel First New Hampshire Reg't.
WILLIAM MADISON MASON, Washington, D. C. (14920). Son of
James Madison Mason and Laura E. Pepin; grandson of Victor
Pepin and Lucetta Woodruff; great-grandson of Victor Pepin and
Martha Towns; great2-grandson of John Tozvns, Lieutenant. Daniel
Morgan's Seventh Virginia Reg't.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 247
IRA J. MEAGLEY, Washington, D. C. (14903)- Son of John A. Meag-
ley and Maria G. Meagley; grandson of Jno. Meagley and Eliza-
beth Mower; great-grandson of Conrad Mower, private New York
Troops, pensioned.
JAMES OSCAR MOORE, Linneus, Mo. (14906). Son of Jeremiah Pate
Moore and Frances Melvina Rawlins; grandson of Joseph C.
Moore and Jane Pate; great-grandson of James Moore, Lieutenant
First North Carolina Infantry.
BAXTER MORTON, Washington, D. C. (14668). Son of George Baxter
Morton and Emma Woolridge Brown ; grandson of Jacob Morton
and Mary Jane Venable; great-grandson of Joseph Venable and
Elizabeth Watkins; great2-grandson of Francis Watkins; great3-
grandson of Thomas Watkins, Captain Prince Edward County, Vir-
ginia, Militia Dragoons.
WALLACE NEFF, Washington, D. C. (14664). Son of William How-
ard Neff and Lucy Wallace; grandson of Peter Neff and Isabella
Freeman ; great-grandson of Peter Neff and Rebecca Scout ; great2-
grandson of Aaron Scout, Ensign First Battalion Philadelphia Mil-
itia, also of Rudolph Neff, Captain, Lewis' Philadelphia Foot.
ARTHUR HILL O'CONNOR, Washington, D. C. (14916). Son of
Henry O'Connor and Sarah Hill; grandson of Caleb Hill and
Hannah Underwood; great-grandson of Stukely Hill and Sarah
Kenyon; great2-grandson of Caleb Hill, First Lieutenant North
Kingston, Rhode Island, Militia.
RAYMOND A. PEARSON, Washington, D. C. (-14524). Son of Leonard
Pearson and Lucy S. Jones; grandson of Benjamin Pearson and
Lois Noyes ; great-grandson of Benjamin Pearson, drummer, fifer,
Sergeant, Mass. Militia.
EDWARD TRUE PETTENGILL, Washington, D. C. (14999). Son of
True Edward Glidden Pettengill and Emma Louisa Sturges;
grandson of Benjamin Graffan Pettengill and Hannah Barker;
great-grandson of Benjamin Pettengill, private Third Mass. Line ;
great2-grandson of David Pettengill, private, Wigglesworth's Thir-
teenth Mass. Line; grandson of David Sturges and Ann Marsh;
great-grandson of Augustus Sturges, private Fifth Conn. Line, pen-
sioned.
GEORGE THOMPSON PREWITT, Washington, D. C. (15388). Son
of James Paulen Clark Prewitt and Sarah Burns; grandson of
Robert Hurt Prewitt and Elizabeth Clark ; great-grandson of Byrd
Prewitt, private, Parker's Fifth Virginia Reg't, pensioned.
JOHN McCLURE RANKIN, Washington, D. C. (15378). Son of Will-
iam Stevenson Rankin and Laura McClure; grandson of Thomas
Rankin and Gertrude Burgess ; great-grandson of Hugh Rankin,
private Eighth Penna. Line, pensioned; grandson of John Allen
McClure and Eunice Keeler Fish; great-grandson of Nathaniel
McClure and Jane Porter; great2-grandson of John McClure and
Mary Allen ; great3-grandson of William McClure, Surgeon Sixth
North Carolina Reg't, pensioned.
WILLIAM DE C. RAVENEL, Washington, D. C. (14523). Son of Will-
iam F. Ravenel and Ellen M. DuBose; grandson of Henry Rav-
enel and Elizabeth C. Porcher, also of Samuel DuBose and Ann
Stevens; great-grandson of Rene Ravenel, private, Marion's Brigade,
South Carolina State Troops ; great-grandson of Samuel DuBose,
(and Elizabeth Sinkler), Adjutant Craven County, South Carolina,
Reg't; great2-grandson of Peter Sinkler, private, Marion's Brigade,
prisoner. .
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WILLIAM FIELD REED, Washington, D. C. (15385). Son of Benjamin
F. Field and Betsey W. Durfee ; grandson of Charles Durfee and
Fanny T. Stillwell ; great-grandson of Thomas Durfee, Ensign
Third Company, Tiverton, Rhode Island, Militia.
ELMER R. REYNOLDS, Washington, D. C. (15383). Son of Allan
Branch Reynolds and Sarah W. Van Amburgh ; grandson of
Allen Reynolds, private, Warner's Conn. Reg't, pensioned.
HUGH RODMAN, U. S. Navy, Frankport, Ky. ( 15377)- Son of Hugh
Rodman and Susan Ann Barbour; grandson of Thomas Barbour
and Ann Taylor ; great-grandson of Thomas Barbour and Mary
Taylor; great2-grandson of James Taylor, Sergeant-Major Virginia
Line ; great3-grandson of George Taylor, Member of Virginia Con-
vention, 1775 ; great-grandson of William Taylor and Susan Gib-
son (parents of Ann) ; great2-grandson of Jonathan Taylor (father
of William and son of George), officer of Virginia Militia.
SAMUEL ROSS, Washington, D. C. (14913)- Son of John Ross and
Sarah Bratton; grandson of James Ross and Elizabeth McKinstry ;
great-grandson of Henry Polkinhorn and Catherine Askie; great2-
grandson of James Askie, Sergeant Eighth Penna. Line.
HENRY WHITEFIELD SAMSON, Washington, D. C. (10420) (Supple-
mental). Son of George Clement Samson and Marianne Polkin-
horn; grandson of Henry Polkinhorn and Mary Ann Brown;
great-grandson of Henry Polkinhorn and Catherine Askie; great 2-
grandson of James Askie, Sergeant Eighth Penna. Line.
ALGERNON EDWARD URBAN SARTORIS, U. S. Army (14914)-
Son of Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris and Nellie Grant ;
grandson of Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent ; great-grandson of
Jesse R. Grant and Hannah Simpson ; great'-grandson of Noah
Grant, private Bedel's New Hampshire Reg't; great-grandson of
Frederick D^nt and Ellen Wrenshall ; grear-grandson of George
Dent, Captain Second Maryland Reg't.
HENRY SEYMOUR, Washington, D. C. (14921). Son of Henry Sey-
mour and Jeanette Hinsdill ; grandson of Stephen Hinsdill and
Hannah Edgerton ; great-grandson of Eleazer Edgerton, Second
Lieutenant, Stark's New Hampshire Brigade.
THOMAS TURNER SMITH, Washington, D. C. (14511)- Son of Ed-
ward Jaquelin Smith and Ella Buckner ; grandson of Philip
Smith and Louisa Collier Christian ; great-grandson of Edward
Smith and Elizabeth Bush; great2-grandson of Philip Bush, Deputy
Quartermaster-General at Winchester, Virginia, in charge of Hes-
sian prisoners ; grandson of Richard Bernard Buckner and Louisa
Hipkins Berryman ; great-grandson of Abiss Buckner and Lucy
Hooe ; great2-grandson of Richard Buckner, Member Westmoreland,
Virginia, Committee of Safety.
WILLIAM HOWE SOMERVELL, Washington, D. C. (14908). Son of
Benjamin Carr Somervell and Alice Norris ; grandson of John
Howe Somervell and Sarah Scrivner ; great-grandson of Thomas
Trueman Somervell and Margaret Holliday : grear-grandson of
James Somervell, Captain Maryland Line.
PAUL ARTHUR SORG, Middletown, Ohio (14670). Son of Paul J.
Sorg and S. Jennie Gruver ; grandson of David Gruver and Sarah
Smith; great-grandson of George Smith and Catherine Harshy :
great2-grandson of Jonathan Bayard Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel
Fourth Philadelphia Battalion.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 249
EUGENE E. STEVENS, Washington, D. C. (14919)- Son of Milo Bay-
ley Stevens and Josephine Pearson; grandson of Simeon Stevens
and S. Bennett; great-grandson of Otho Stevens, private, Olcott's
Reg't, Vermont Militia; great2-grandson of Simeon Stevens, Cap-
tain New Hampshire and Vermont Troops, pensioned.
J. McDONALD STEWART, Washington, D. C. (14516). Son of James
Muir Stewart and Susan A. Swett; grandson of Samuel Swett
and Rebecca Clark ; great-grandson of Greenleaf Clark, Captain
Newburyport, Mass., "Silver Greys" Militia Company.
JOSIAH CLARK STODDARD, Garrett Park, Md. (14904). Son of
Cyrus Sherman Stoddard and Charlotte Rhoda Sperry; grandson
of Israel Stoddard and Mary Wilson ; great-grandson of John Stod-
dard, private, Wolcott's Conn. Reg't.
GEORGE EDWARD TOWER, Washington, D. C. (14521). Son of
Reuben Tower and Clarissa Weed Shiffer ; grandson of Dewey
Tower and Wiggins ; great-grandson of Reuben Tower, Ser-
geant, Ira Allen's Reg't, Vermont Militia.
MOLYNEAUX L. TURNER, Washington, D. C. (15390). Son of James
Lawrence Turner and Margaret Woodbury; grandson of James
Lawrence Turner and Sarah Ann Palmer ; great-grandson of Isaac
Turner and Esther Comstock; great2-grandson of Isaac Turner,
Lieutenant Second Conn. Line ; great3-grandson of Mathew Turner,
private Conn. Militia; grandson of Elisha Woodbury and Mary
Ann Molyneaux ; great-grandson of Robert Woodbury and Abiah
Kingman; great2-grandson of Elisha Woodbury, Captain, Stark's
New Hampshire Reg't.
ALBERT HARRISON VAN DEUSEN, Washington, D. C. (15376).
Son of Peter Jasper Monk Van Deusen and Deborah Ferro
Davis; grandson of Caspar Van Deusen, private, Graham's Dutchess
County, New York Reg't; great-grandson of Robert Van Deusen,
private. Livingston's Albany County, New York, Reg't.
JOSEPH STILES WALL, Washington, D. C. (14660). Son of Allen
Wall and Elizabeth Stiles ; grandson of Joseph Wall and Frances
Allen ; great-grandson of Garret Wall and Mary Sparks ; grear-
grandson of Richard Sparks, Sergeant Ninth Nenna. Line.
HENRY MADISON WALTER, Washington, D. C. (14674)- Son of
William Henry Walter and Elizabeth Woolley Ham; grandson
of George Hewlett Ham and Ruthetta Clark; great-grandson of
Caspar Ham (and Elizabeth Wooley), private Sixth Dutchess
County, New York, Militia ; great2-grandson of Joseph Wooley,
private Sixth Dutchess County, New York, Militia.
CHARLES FRANCIS WHITNEY, Woodside, Md. (15386). Son of
Barney Cook Whitney and Mary Francis; grandson of Calvin
Francis and Abigail Deming Francis ; great-grandson of Daniel
Francis and Mehitabel Goodrich (parents of Abigail) ; great2-
grandson of John Francis, Captain Wethersfield Conn. Provisional
Reg't.
JOSEPH BENSON WILL, Falls Church, Va. (14522). Son of Joseph
Benson Will and Alice Beall ; grandson of Jacob Gresinger Will
and Sarah Swinhart; great-grandson of George Will and Elizabeth
Gresinger; great2-grandson of George Will, Adjutant. Sixth Penna.
Line.
ALPHEUS WINTER, Jr., Washington, D. C. (15387). Son of Al-
pheus Winter and Flora Damaris Thompson ; grandson of Al-
pheus Winter and Prudence Kenfield; great-grandson of Joseph
Winter, private Conn. Militia; grandson of Lyman Eugene Thomp-
son and Dinah Johnson ; great-grandson of Stephen Thompson
250 NATIONAL SOCIETY
and Eunice Fletcher ; great2-grandson of Richard Fletcher, Lieuten-
ant Conn. Troops; great-grandson of David Johnson and Huldah
Walker ; great3grandson of Simons Walker, private Sixth Conn.
Reg't.
ROBERT EDWARD LEE YELLOTT, Washington, D. C. (15380). Son
of Coleman Yellott and Mary Virginia Burt; grandson of John
Yellott and Rebecca Coleman ; great-grandson of John Coleman,
Ensign Second Virginia Reg't.
FLORIDA SOCIETY.
GEORGE PARKER WENTWORTH, Pensacola, Fla. (11763). Son of
Geogre Edgar Wentworth and Susan Weatherbee Parker ; grand-
son of Hiram Stearns Parker and Nancy Leavitt ; great-grandson
of John Parker and Hannah Stearns; great2-grandson of John
Parker, commanded Lexington Company of Minute Men, April 19,
I775-
SOCIETY IN FRANCE.
CHARLES CHAILLE-LONG, Paris, France (1045). Son of Littleton
Long and Annie M. Costen (not Colston) ; grandson of Levin Long
and Comfort Chaille; great-grandson of Peter Chaille, Colonel Mary-
land Militia, Member Maryland Association of Freemen. (Correc-
tion of National Register.)
WILLIAM SWIFT DALLIBA, Paris France (13207). Son of James
Edward Dalliba and Achsah D. Swift ; grandson of James Dalliba
and Susannah Huntington ; great-grandson of Gurdon Huntington
and Anna Perkins; great2-grandson of Benjamin Huntington, Mem-
ber Conn. Committee of Safety, Member Continental Congress.
GASTON DE SAHUNE DE LA LAFAYETTE, Toulon, France (5184)
(Member also of Mass. Society). Son of Baron De Sahune and
Octavie Perier ; grandson of Adolphe Perier and Nathalie De La-
fayette; great-grandson of George Washington Lafayette and
Emilie Oestut de Tracy; great2-grandson of Marquis de Lafayette,
Major-General Continental Army.
HAWAIIAN SOCIETY.
FREDERICK J. AMWEG, Honolulu, H. I. (14626). Son of John M.
Amweg and Margaret Higley Fenn ; grandson of Frederick J. Fenn
and Emeline Haskins ; great-grandson of James Fenn and Lois
Sedgwick; great2-grandson of Theophilus Fenn, Member of Conn.
Assembly, Captain of Militia.
WILLIAM WOODWORTH BRUNER, Kealakekua, Koua, H. I.
(14627). Son of William Happersett Bruner and Jane WTood-
worth ; grandson of John Bruner and Maria Jones ; great-grandson
of David Jones and Hannah Graham; great2-grandson of Jonathan
Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel Third Battalion Berks County Penna.
Militia.
DE BLOIS PEARCE PENHALLOW, Honolulu, H. I. (9400). Son of
David Pearce Penhallow and Mary Yeaton; grandson of Hun-
king Penhallow and Harriet Pearce; great-grandson of John Pen-
hallow and Sarah Wentworth; great2-grandson of Hunking Went-
worth, Chairman Committee of Safety; great-grandson of Darid
Pearce, equipped privateers from Gloucester, Mass.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 25 1
ILLINOIS SOCIETY.
AUSTIN EUGENE ALLEN, Chicago, 111. (14601). Son of Ethan
Allen and Maria Allen; grandson of Par make Allen, Captain, Her-
rick's Reg't, Vermont Rangers.
ARTHUR PEABODY BOWEN, Riverside, 111. (14607). Son of James
H. Bowen and Caroline A. Smith ; grandson of Stephen Bowen and
Lucinda Bates ; great-grandson of Asa Bowen and Mary Remington,
great2-grandson of Hezekiah Bowen, private, Simonds' Berkshire
County, Mass., Reg't.
GEORGE S. BOWEN, Elgin, 111. (14606). Son of Stephen Bowen and
Lucinda Bates; grandson of Asa Bowen and Mary Remington;
great-grandson of Hezekiah Bowen, private, Simonds' Berkshire
County, Mass., Reg't.
IRA PARDEE BOWEN, Chicago, 111. (14605). Son of James H. Bowen
and Caroline A. Smith ; grandson of Stephen Bowen and Lucinda
Bates ; great-grandson of Asa Bowen and Mary Remington ; great"-
grandson of Hezekiah Bowen, private, Simonds' Berkshire County,
Mass., Reg't.
AUSTIN BURT, Cedar Falls, Iowa (14616). Son of Horace Eldon Burt
and Lillie Higgins ; grandson of Austin Burt and Lydia Calkins ;
great-grandson of William Austin Burt and Phoebe Cole; great2-
grandson of Alvin Burt, private Mass. Militia.
LOTHFIOP MOTLEY BURT, Chicago, 111. (14617). Son of Horace El-
don Burt and Lillie Higgins; grandson of Austin Burt and Lydia
Calkins; great-grandson of William Austin Burt and Phcebe
Cole; great2-grandson of Alvin Burt, private Mass. Militia.
FRANK D. CALLAN, Chicago, 111. (14603). Son of Christopher Cal-
lan and Lucy Chapman ; grandson of Richard Chapman and Lucy
Loomis ; great-grandson of Daniel Chapman, Sergeant New York
Militia, pensioned.
IRA BEATTY CRISSMAN, Chicago, 111. (14620). Son of Samuel Ma-
clay Crissman and Mary Beatty; grandson of Adam Crissman and
Nancy Reighley; great-grandson of Reighley and Susannah
Mifflin; great2-grandson of Thomas Mifflin, Major-General Contin-
ental Army, Member of Board of War.
WILLIAM BEVERLY ELLSWORTH, Deer Park, 111. (14604). Son of
Urbin S. Ellsworth and Victoria B. Gibbs ; grandson of William
A. Ellsworth and Lydia Clark ; great-grandson of Eliphalet Ells-
worth and Bethiah Thatcher; great2-grandson of Charles Ells-
worth and Sarah Hill ; great3-grandson of Charles Ellsworth, Cap-
tain Conn. Line.
IRWIN AGNEW EWING, Monmouth, 111. (15139). Son of Henry J.
Ewing and Mary E. Webster; grandson of Samuel Webster and
Deborah Kirk; great-grandson of John Kirk and Deborah Brown,
great2-grandson of Roger Kirk, Captain Fourth Battalion Chester
County, Penna., Associators.
ISAAC GIPSON FINLEY, Grand Ridge, 111. (13850). Son of Evans
Finley and Mary A. Crow; grandson of Ebenezer Finley and
Phebe Woodward; great-grandson of Ebenezer Finley, private
Penna. Frontier Rangers ; great2-grandson of James Finley, Special
Agent Penna. Colonial Council in Frontier Service.
WILLIAM H. FITCH, Rockford, 111. (14615). Son of John Fitch, Jr.,
and Lucy Sawtelle ; grandson of John Fitch ; great-grandson of
Zachariah Fitch, Captain Groton, Mass., Minute Men.
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DAVID NEVINS FRENCH, Chicago, 111. (14608). Son of William
Harrison French and Jennie Bowen ; grandson of James H.
Bowen and Caroline A. Smith; great-grandson of Stephen Bowen
and Lucinda Bates ; great2-grandson of Asa Bowen and Mary Rem-
ington ; great3-grandson of Hezekiah Bowen, private, Simonds'
Berkshire County, Mass., Reg't.
FRANKLIN HARMON GODFREY, Bloomington, 111. (14602). Son
of Isaac L. Godfrey and Celia Pumpelly Dillingham; grandson of
Cornelius Dillingham and Elizabeth Pumpelly; great-grandson of
John Pompilly, marine Mass. ship "Saucy Tartar," private Mass.
Militia, pensioned.
NATHAN PHILLIPS GOODELL, Loda, 111. (14609). Son of Addison
Goodell and Hulda Jane Warren ; grandson of Sellick Byron War-
ren and Mary Van Amburgh Yates ; great-grandson of Perry War-
ren and Hulda Wardell ; great2-grandson of Gamaliel Warren
and Ruth Jenckes ; great3-grandson of James Warren, private, El-
more's Conn. Reg't.
CHARLES GILMER GRAY, Springfield, 111. (15126). Son of Joseph J.
Gray and Sally Taliaferro Gilmer ; grandson of John Thornton
Gilmer and Martha Gaines ; great-grandson of John Gilmer, Cap-
tain Tenth and Sixth Virginia Line.
OSCAR J. HENRY, Monmouth, 111. (15133). Son of George Washing-
ton Henry and Angeline Kingsbury; grandson of William Young
Henry and Fanny Cox; great-grandson of Robert Henry, Ser-
geant Mass. Troops.
STEPHEN K. HAYT, U. S. Army, Lingayen, P. I. (14624). Son of
Walter V. Hayt and Alice Baker ; grandson of Stephen Hayt
and Mary Jane Van Voorhees ; great-grandson of Samuel Hayt
and Sarah Delavan ; great2-grandson of Timothy Delavan, Lieuten-
ant Seventh Dutchess County, New York, Militia.
RODNEY FULLER JOHONNOT, Oak Park, 111. (15129). Son of John
Gould Johonnot and Rachael Jones ; grandson of Titus Johon-
not and Rebecca B. Johonnot; great-grandson of Prince Johonnot,
Captain, Frye's Essex County, Mass., Reg't.
ROBERT DOUGLAS LOOSE, Springfield, 111. (13832). (Supplemental.)
Son of Jacob George Loose and Elizabeth M. lies; grandson of
Washington Iles and Ann Foster; great-grandson of Thomas
Iles and Elizabeth Crockett; great2-grandson of John Crockett,
private Virginia Line.
JAMES H. McKOWN, Chicago, 111. (8336). (Supplemental.) Son of
John Verner Henry McKown and Elizabeth Rider Meachem;
grandson of James McKown and Susan Denniston ; great-grand-
son of Robert McKown, Corporal, Wynkoop's New York Reg't;
grandson of Roswell Steel Meacham and Sarah Elizabeth Ward;
great-grandson of Jesse Ward and Sarah Johnton ; great2-grandson
of Jeremiah Johnston and Sarah Diamond; great3-grandson of
Thomas Smith Diamond, private First Albany, New York. Reg't.
LOUIS SHIRLEY McMILLAN, Chicago, 111. (14618). Son of William
McMillan and Minerva Jane Stringer; grandson of William Mc-
Millan and Rachel Ann Mowlan; great-grandson of Richard Mow-
Ian, Corporal Sixth Maryland Reg't, pensioned.
JOHN LELAND MANNING, Chicago, 111. (15137)- Son of Edmund
Taylor Manning and Abigail Leland; grandson of Levi Manning
and Hepsibah Taylor; great-grandson of Samuel Manning, Member
Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety of Townsend,
Mass.
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JOHN MATTOCKS, Libertyville, 111. (15128). Son of John Mattocks
and Sarah Harris ; grandson of John Mattocks and Mary Elizabeth
Brewer; great-grandson of John Mattocks and Esther Newell;
great2-grandson of Samuel Mattocks, Captain Eighth Conn. Line,
Member Vermont Legislature.
CHARLES FRANCIS MILLS, Springfield, 111. (14610). Son of Bart-
lett Hines Mills and Delia Halsey; grandson of Josiah Mills, pri-
vate Fifth and Fifteenth Mass. Continental Reg'ts, pensioned.
HERBERT MILLS, Chicago, 111. (14625). Son of Frederic Mills and
Hannah Wright ; grandson of John Wright and Jane Cowan ; great-
grandson of Samuel Wright and Hannah Welsh; grear-grandson
of Samuel Wright, private New York Militia and Line.
HUGH ROBB MOFFET, Monmouth, 111. (15132). Son of William
Turner Moffet and Jennie Robb ; grandson of John Moffet and
Letitia Strong: great-grandson of Samuel Moffet and Polly Currie;
great2-grandson of William Moffet, private, Water's outh Carolina
Reg't.
HERBERT HOPKINS MOORE, Chicago, 111. (14621). Son of Robert
Charles Moore and Harriet M. McFarland; grandson of Robert
C. H. Moore and Frances M. Carter; great-grandson of Apolles
Moore, private Mass. Continental troops.
ROBERT CHARLES MOORE, Chicago, 111. (14623). Son of Robert
C. H. Moore and Frances M. Carter ; great-grandson of Apollos
Moore, private Miss. Continental troops.
ROBERT CHARLES MOORE, Jr., Chicago, 111. (14622). Son of
Robert Charles Moore and Harriet M. McFarland; grandson of
Robert C. H. Moore and Frances Carter; great-grandson of Apollos
Moore, private Mass. Continental troops.
PLINY FISK MUNGER, Chicago, 111. (13847). Son of Lyman Mungek
and Martha Stebbins Whitney; grandson of Gaius Munger and
Abigail Button ; great-grandson of Daniel Munger, private Mass.
Militia ; great2-grandson of Elanathan Munger, private Mass.
Militia.
CHARLES ELISHA NYE, Monmouth, 111. (15130)- Son of Elisha
Nye and Harriet Henry; grandson of Elisha Nye (and Druzilla
Thomas), private Mass. troops; great-grandson of David Thomas,
Lieutenant Mass. troops, pensioned.
ARTHUR BURR PEASE, Chicago, 111. (13848). Son of Lyman W.
Pease and Maria L. Bingham ; grandson of Lyman Pease and
Anna Wooster; great-grandson of William Pease and Stella
Hickock; great2-grandson of William Pease, private Conn. Militia.
HENRY REED PEBBLES, Chicago, 111. (8348). (Supplemental.) Son
of Alonzo W. Pebbles and Elizabeth J. Reed ; grandson of Ebenezer
Reed and Margaret Cuthell; great-grandson of Ebenezer Reed and
Elizabeth Seeley ; great2-grandson of Jesse Reed, private, Ninth
Conn. Militia.
MORTON CHANDLER PORTER, Monmouth, 111. (15135)- Son of
James Knox Porter and Mary Chandler; grandson of Horace Nye
Chandler and Anne Bevan ; great-grandson of Zachariah R.
Chandler and Fanny Bingham; great2-grandson of John Chand-
ler and Mary Royce ; great3-grandson of Benjamin Chandler,
Sergeant, New Hampshire Artillery, killed at Battle of Bennington,
Aug. 16, 1777.
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RUFUS HOPKINS SCOTT, Monmouth, 111. (15131). Son of James
Scott and Anna Jane Hopkins ; grandson of Thomas Hopkins and
Sarah Irving; great-grandson of John Hopkins, private Eighth and
Twelfth Virginia Reg'ts.
JOHN SHEPHERD, Chicago, 111. (14613). Son of John George Shep-
herd and Charlotte Stockard ; grandson of William Marshall
Shepherd, also of William Stockard and Mary Thomas Flood;
great-grandson of Thomas Flood, private, Febriger's Virginia Bri-
gade; also of Abraham Shepherd, Captain Eleventh Virginia Volun-
teers.
JOHN ELDON SHEPHERD, Chicago, 111. (14614). Son of John and
Mary E. Shepherd; grandson of John George Shepherd and Char-
lotte Stockard; great-grandson of William Marshall Shepherd
and Elizabeth Shepherd; great2-grandson of Abraham Shepherd,
Captain Eleventh Virginia Volunteers ; great-grandson of William
Stockard and Mary Thomas Flood; grear-grandson of Thomas
Flood, private, Febriger's Virginia Brigade.
SAMUEL READ WARD, Richmond, 111. (13849). Son of Nathan
Ward and Hannah Woodward Clark ; grandson of Edward Clark
(and Elizabeth Wesson), private New Hampshire Militia; great-
grandson of Ephraim Wesson, member New Hampshire Provincial
Congress.
VICTOR HUGO WEBB, Monmouth, 111. (15134). Son of Henry Ice-
land Webb and Anna E. Hull ; grandson of Greenleaf S. Webb and
Genevieve De Querreau ; great-grandson of Moses Webb, private
Fifth Conn. Line, pensioned.
RALPH WALDO WEBSTER, Chicago, 111. (15138). Son of John Ran-
dolph Webster and Susannah Isabelle Nye; grandson of Elisha
Nye and Harriet Henry ; great-grandson of William Young Henry
and Fanny Cox ; great2-grandson of Benjamin Cox, Captain in com-
mand of Fort Defiance, Vermont.
MARVIN J. WELCH, River Forest, 111. (14611). Son of Edward F.
Welch and Elizabeth M. Hodge; grandson of Marvin G. Hodge
and Harriet L. Kellam ; great-grandson of John Kellam and Debo-
rah Haines; grear-grandson of Matthias Haines, -private New
Hampshire Continental troops ; great-grandson of Levi Hodge and
Fanny Wheatly ; great2-grandson of Thomas Hodge, private Conn.
Line; also of Andrew Wheatley, Quartermaster Fourth Conn. Line.
ARCHIBALD C. YOUNG, Monmouth, 111. (15136). Son of William H.
Young and Charlotte P. Bowker; grandson of Stephen Mapes
Bowker and Anne Acker; great-grandson of Albert Acker and
Sallie Hart ; also of Thomas Hart and Margaret Darragh ; grear-
grandson of John Darragh and Deborah Hart; great-grandson of
John Hart, Signer of Declaration of Independence.
INDIANA SOCIETY.
JOSEPH ALDRICH BURSLEY, Fort Wayne, Ind. (13667). Son of
Gilbert Everette Bursley and Ellen Rebecca Aldrich; grandson of
Elisha Matthewson Aldrich and Rebecca Phetteplace Evans ;
great-grandson of Richard Aldrich and Hannah Aldrich ; grear-
grandson of Noah Aldrich, private Rhode Island troops, pensioned.
PHILIP EVERETTE BURSLEY, Fort Wayne, Ind. (13668). Son of
Gilbert Everette Bursley and Ellen Rebecca Aldrich ; grandson of
Elisha Matthewson Aldrich and Rebecca Phelteplace Evans ;
great-grandson of Richard Aldrich and Hannah Aldrich; grear-
grandson of Noah Aldrich, private Rhode Island troops, pensioned.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 255
EDWARD P. CLANCY, Indianapolis, Ind. (14809). Son of Martin
Clancy and Clarinda Bush; grandson of Henry Bush and Ellen
Braiden; great-grandson of Henry Bush, Second Lieutenant
Seventh New York Levies and Militia Kinderhook District.
BYRON DAWSON, Indianapolis, Ind. (14811). Son of John W. Daw-
son and Martha Ann Johnson; grandson of Daniel Dawson and
Keziah Tanner; great-grandson of Josiah Tanner, Lieutenant, Roe-
buck's South Carolina Reg't, pensioned.
OSCAR DINWIDDIE, Orchard Grove, Ind. (13671). Son of John
Wilson Dinwiddie and Mary Janette Perkins; grandson of Joseph
Perkins and Elizabeth Cook ; great-grandson of Elijah Cook, private
Conn. Line, pensioned.
CHARLES J. EYANSON, Columbia City, Ind. (14810). Son of Thomas
Eyanson and Mary M. Closkey ; grandson of John Eyanson, private
Minute Man Salem County, New Jersey, Militia.
MILTON GARRIGUS, Kokomo, Ind. (14808). Son of Timothy L. Gar-
rigus and Elizabeth A. Ferree ; grandson of David Garrigus, private
Eastern Battalion Morris County New Jersey State Troops.
MORTON S. HAWKINS, Portland, Ind. (14805). Son of Nathan
Byrd Hawkins and Geneva I. Jaqua ; grandson of Nathan Byrd
Hawkins and Rebecca Shank; great-grandson of John Jay Haw-
kins and Nancy Sellers ; great'-grandson of Samuel Hawkins, pri-
vate Penna. Militia, also of Nathan Sellers, Sergeant Penna. Militia.
CHARLES E. HAWLEY, Huntington, Ind. (14802). Son of David M.
Hawley and Louisa J. Burket ; grandson of Eli Burket and Fannie
Miller ; great-grandson of Benjamin Miller and Catherine Heiney ;
great'-grandson of Samuel Heiney and Barbery Stearne ; great'-
grandson of Jacob Heiney, private, Proctor's Penna. Artillery, Con-
tinental Line.
EDGAR F. HAWLEY, Huntington, Ind. (14801). Son of David M.
Hawley and Louisa J. Burket ; grandson of Eli Burket and Fan-
nie Miller; great-grandson of Benjamin Miller and Catherine
Heiney; great-grandson of Samuel Heiney and Barbery Stearne;
great3-grandson of Jacob Heiney, private, Proctor's Penna. Artillery,
Continental Line.
GEORGE TALLMAN LADD, Fort Wayne, Ind. (13669). Son of George
Trumbull Ladd and Cornelia A. Tallman ; grandson of John C.
Tallman and Ellen Rhine ; great-grandson of Tallman ;
great'-grandson of James Tallman, private Eleventh Virginia Line.
JOHN W. LITTLE, Huntington, Ind. (13673). Son of James McK.
Little and Martha H. Neal ; grandson of William Neal and Han-
nah Rollings ; great-grandson of James Neal and Mary Ann Mar-
tin; great'-grandson of Micajah Neal, private, Taylor's Virginia
Reg't, pensioned.
THOMAS J. McCOY, Rensselaer, Ind. (14813)- Son of Alfred McCoy
and Mary Jane Parkinson; grandson of John G. Parkinson and
Matilda Belle Kenton; great-grandson of Simon Kenton, in secret
service, private under George Rogers Clark, prisoner.
JOSEPH GLASS MARSHALL, Indianapolis, Ind. (13672). Son of
Robert M. Marshall and Caroline L. Thurston; grandson of
Joseph Glass Marshall and Sarah Sering; great-grandson of
Robert Marshall, Sergeant Tenth Penna. Line; grandson of Will-
iam Bradford Thurston and Louisa Sawyer; great-grandson of
Samuel Flagg Sawyer and Patience Larned ; great2-grandson of
Elisha Sawyer, Jr., First Lieutenant Mass. Bay Militia.
256 NATIONAL SOCIETY
FRANK B. MORGAN, Huntington, Ind. (13674)- Son of Robert H.
Morgan and Rebecca M. Morgan ; grandson of Micajah Morgan
and Hannah Morgan ; great-grandson of Benjamin Morgan and
Naomi White ; great2-grandson of Charles Morgan and Susannah
Nixon; great3-grandson of James Morgan, Captain Eighth Conn.
Foot.
WALTER CLAY NICHOLS, Muncie, Ind. (14806). Son of Alfred
Knapp Nichols and Celia Smith; grandson of Reuben Nichols
and Joan Lewis Bullard; great-grandson of William Nichols and
Sarah Kimball; great2-grandson of Abraham Kimball, private, Stick-
ney's New Hampshire Reg't; also of Seth Bullard, Major Mass.
Militia, Muster Master of Suffolk County.
JAMES G. I. PENFIELD, Huntington, Ind. (13675)- Son of A. P. Pen-
field and Emily J. Nesmith; grandson of James Nesmith and
Martha Elliott; great-grandson of John Nesmith and Hannah
Shirley; great2-grandson of John Nesmith, Lieutenant, Jackson's
New Hampshire Reg't.
LEVI L. SIMONS, Warren, Ind. (14803). Son of William Simons and
Anna M. Simons ; grandson of Adriel Simons and Patty Merritt ;
great-grandson of Adriel Simons, private Conn. Militia.
WILBUR TOPPING, Terre Haute, Ind. (14814). Son of Henry Top-
ping and Mary Tallman ; grandson of John C. Tallman and Ellen
Rine; great-grandson of Peter Tallman and Sarah Berry; great-
grandson of James Tallman, private Eleventh Virginia Continental
Line.
MATHEW J. TRACY, Whiteland, Ind. (14812). Son of James Tracy
and Mary Tanner; grandson of Josiah Tanner, Lieutenant, Roe-
buck's South Carolina Reg't, pensioned.
THOMAS CHALMERS WHALLON, Indianapolis, Ind. (13670). Son
of Edward Payson Whallon and Margaret Ellen Kitchell; grand-
son of Thomas Whallon and Harriet Suzanna Bickle ; great-grand-
son of James Whallon and Allie Hagaman ; great2-grandson
of James Whallon, Lieutenant Somerset County, New Jersey, Mil-
great-grandson of Daniel Kitchell and Rachel Crest ; great-grand-
son of Samuel Kitchell and Margaret Kennedy ; great3-grandson
of Daniel Kitchell, Minute Man New Jersey Militia.
IOWA SOCIETY.
FRANK ANDERSON, Sioux City, Iowa (10462). Son of Lewis Ander-
son and Catherine Wylie; grandson of Robert Wylie and Elizabeth
Brown; great-grandson of Oliver Brown, Captain-Lieutenant Mass.
Continental Artillery.
JOHN MITCHEL BROWN, Evanston, 111. (13889). Son of Philip
Hammond Brown and Mary Ann Brown; grandson of Basil
Brown (and Henrietta Hammond), private Maryland Line: great-
grandson of William Hammond, private Seventh Maryland Reg't.
JOHN BROOKS COLLINS, Des Moines, Iowa (15077). Son of Henry
Collins and Elizabeth Parmalee ; grandson of Levi Collins (and
Abigail Stanton), private, Bedel's New Hampshire Reg't: great-
grandson of Ephraim Collins, private, Bedel's New Hampshire
Reg't; also of Isaac Wheeler Stanton. Second Lieutenant, Seidell's
Conn. Reg't; grandson of Hermann Parmalee and Nancy Brooks;
great-grandson of Amos Parmalee, private, Wooster's Conn. Reg't.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 257
WARREN SCOTT DUNGAN, Chariton, Iowa (4799). (Supplemental.)
Son of David Davis Dungan and Isabella McFarren; grandson of
William McFarren, Ensign Northampton County Penna. Militia;
great-grandson of William McFarren, private Northampton County
Penna. Militia.
OSCAR BELL FRYE, Des . Moines, Iowa (13894). Son of William
Clinton Frye and Mary Keep Bell ; grandson of Charles Bell and
Jones ; great-grandson of William Bell, Jr., private, Og-
den's New Jersey Regiment.
ALONZO CHARLES GOODRICH, Keokuk, Iowa (13890). Son of
Charles Rollin Goodrich and Harriet Fish; grandson of James
Goodrich and Mary Wallace Upham; great-grandson of Charles
Goodrich, Sergeant Berkshire County Mass. Militia; grandson of
Nathan Fish and Elizabeth Hale ; great-grandson of Nathan Fish,
private Mass. Minute Men and Militia.
DAVID BROWN HAMILL, Keokuk, Iowa (13898). Son of Smith
Hamill and Nancy McCandless; grandson of John McCandless
and Mary Young; great-grandson of William Young, private Cum-
berland County Penna. Militia.
CHARLES HAMILTON, Ames, low? (15081). Son of John J. Hamil-
ton and Lydia Allen ; grandson ot John Hamilton and Dolly Camp-
bell ; great-grandson of John Hamilton, private Conn. Continental
Line.
WILLIAMSON E. HAMILTON, Des Moines, Iowa (15078). Son of
James Hamilton and Minerva M. Hallam ; grandson of John Ham-
ilton, private First Battalion Maryland Line.
GILBERT MORTIMER HOLMES, Des Moines, Iowa (13899). Son of
Morgan Lewis Holmes and Mariamna Wightman; grandson of
Gilbert Holmes and Mary Kellogg; great-grandson of Enoch Kel-
logg, private Conn. Line, pensioned.
FREDERICK COOPER HUBBELL, Des Moines, Iowa (13891). Son of
Frederick Marion Hubbell and Frances Elizabeth Cooper; grand-
son of Francis Durritt Hubbell and Augusta Church ; great-grand-
son of Isaac Hubbell and Sarah Hawkins ; great2-grandson of Isaac
Hawkins, private Conn. Militia, pensioned.
FRANK DARR JACKSON, Des Moines, Iowa (13887). Son of Hiram W.
Jackson and Maria B. Jenks ; grandson of George Jenks and Sylvia
Lewis; great-grandson of Timothy Lewis, private Mass. Militia.
JOHN MILTON LINDLY, Winfield, Iowa (13897). Son of Bayard
Blachly Lindly and Clarriet Hanna; grandson of John Milton
Lindly and Eliza Blachly; great-grandson of Henry Wickham
Blachly and Hannah Loveridge; great2-grandson of Ebenezer
Blachly (and Elizabeth Spencer), Surgeon North Carolina Line;
great3-grandson of Oliver Spencer (and Anna Ogden), Colonel
Essex County, New Jersey, Militia, Member Committee of Safety;
great4-grandson of Robert Ogden, Member Committee of Safety
and Correspondence ; grandson of Thomas Hanna and Jane Cooper ;
great-grandson of Sylvanus Cooper and Mary Bryant; great2-
grandson of David Bryant, private Essex County, New Jersey, Mi-
litia ; also of Zebulon Cooper, private Third New York Line ; great-
grandson of John Vance Hanna and Lydia McCollum; great2-
grandson of David McCollum, private New Jersey Militia and Con-
tinental Line ; great-grandson of William Lindly and Sarah Squier ;
great2-grandson of Moses Squier and Anna Rutan ; great3-grandson
of Abraham Rutan, Ensign Eastern Battalion, Morris County, New
Jersey, Militia, also of Thomas Squier, private Essex County, New
Jersey, Militia.
258 NATIONAL SOCIETY
DAVID HARRIS McKEE, Mediapolis, Iowa (13892). Son of Samuel
Ewing McKee and Hannah Harris ; grandson of George Harris and
Eliza McBride ; great-grandson of Barnabas Harris and Esther
Miller; great2-grandson of George Harris, Sergeant Second New
Jersey State Troops.
JOHN A. MAGOUN, Jr., Sioux City, Iowa (13895)- Son of John
Adams Magoun and Ella C. Woodbury; grandson of John Calvin
Magoun and Sarah Ann Adams ; great-grandson of Joseph Adams,
Sergeant Mass. Militia ; also of Josiah Magoun, private New Hamp-
shire troops, pensioned.
LAMOINE MOTT, Des Moines, Iowa (13886). Son of Henry H. Mott
and Mary Lockwood; grandson of David Lockwood, private, Gra-
ham's Reg't, New York Levies, and in privateer service.
FREEMAN LESTER PAINE, Boone, Iowa (15079). Son of Eddy
Brown Paine and Sally Holmes; grandson of Ezra Holmes and
Grace Chittenden; great-grandson of James Holmes, Captain Conn.
Continental troops, taken prisoner at Fort Washington.
DUDLEY HALE ROCKWELL, Des Moines, Iowa (15080). Son or
John Marshall Rockwell and Charlotte Maria Rockwell ; grand-
son of Daniel Rockwell and Rebecca Mason; great-grandson of
Silas Rockwell, private, Wadsworth's Conn. Brigade, pensioned.
JOSEPH GAGE ROUNDS, Des Moines, Iowa (13885). Son of James
Rounds and Eliza Merrill; grandson of Gerry Rounds and Mary
Gage; great-grandson of Joseph Rounds, Corporal York County
Mass. Militia.
EUGENE RILEY SMITH, Toledo, Iowa (13900). Son of William
Smith and Cynthia Smith ; grandson of Salmeron Smith and Anna
Avery ; great-grandson of Jonathan Avery and Dorothy Dudley ;
great2-grandson of Trueworthy Dudley, private Fourth New Hamp-
shire Militia ; also of Josiah Avery, private Herrick's Reg't, Ver-
mont Rangers.
CARL McCLELLAN SPENCER, Des Moines, Iowa (13888). Son of
George W. Spencer and Emily Resia Cushing; grandson of Mat-
thew Cushing and Rosia Woodruff; great-grandson of William
Woodruff, Corporal Fifth Conn. Line, pensioned.
WILLIAM H. WHEELER, Des Moines, Iowa (4739)- (Supplemental).
Son of Benjamin Wheeler and Luthera Capron Cristy; grandson
of James Wheeler and Hannah Andrus ; great-grandson of Com-
fort Wheeler, private Conn, and New York troops, pensioned ; great2-
grandson of Valentine Wheeler, Captain Dutchess County, New
York, Militia
TOM CORNELL WHITMORE, Mount Vernon, Iowa (13806). Son of
Charles McGee Whitmore and Isabel Cornell; grandson of Nor-
man Riley Cornell and Mary Fletcher Timmonds ; great-grandson
of Amos Cornell and Destimony Chamberlain ; great2-grandson of
John Chamberlain and Lucy Knowlton; great3-grandson of Ben-
jamin Knowlton and Abigail Wright ; great*-grandson of Benjamin
Knowlton, Lieut., Reed's New Hampshire Reg't.
FREDERICK JAMES WILL. Des Moines, Iowa (15076). Son of James
St. Clair Will and Katherine Berlin ; grandson of George Au-
gustus Berlin; great-grandson of Abraham Berlin, Member North-
ampton County, Penna., Committee of Correspondence.
ARTHUR JUSTIN WRIGHT, Newton, Iowa (13893). Son of Charles
Dexter Wright and Rosanna Bethia Albee; grandson of Ebenezer
Albee and Bethiah Bisbee: great-grandson of Ebenezer Albee, pri-
vate, Eben Wood's Reg't, Vermont Militia.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 259
KANSAS SOCIETY.
EDWIN BERGSTRESSER, Abilene, Kan. (12099). Son of Peter Berg-
stresser and Martha J. Fuller ; grandson of Peter Bergstresser and
Elizabeth Ulrich; great-grandson of George Ulrich, private Fourth
Battalion Northumberland County, Penna., Militia.
JAMES W. CAMPBELL, Frankfort, Kan. (14826). Son of William L.
Campbell and Elizabeth Hill Iliff; grandson of James Campbell
and Mehala McPherson ; great-grandson of James Campbell, private,
Marinus Willett's New York Reg't, pensioned.
CHARLES ELISHA ELDRIDGE, Topeka, Kan. (14830). Son of Jo-
seph Lewis Eldridge and Ann Judson; grandson of Joseph Eld-
ridge and Mary Emerson; great-grandson of Elisha D. Eldridge
and Phoebe Lewis ; great2-grandson of John Lewis, Master of Mass.
sloop "Warren."
SHEFFIELD INGALLS, Atchison, Kan. (12098). Son of John James
Ingalls and Anna Louisa Chesebrough ; grandson of Ellsworth
Chesebrough and Anna Louisa Addison ; great-grandson of Enoch
Stanton Chesebrough and Sarah Sheffield ; great2-grandson of Na-
thaniel Chesebrough, Ensign Fly's Fourth Battalion Conn. Troops ;
grandson of Elias Theodore Ingalls and Eliza Chase ; great-grand-
son of Theodore Ingalls and Ruth Flint ; great2-grandson of Ben-
jamin Flint, Sergeant Mass. Continental troops.
CLAUDE FREDERICK KIMBALL, Topeka, Kan. (14831). Son of
Frederick M. Kimball and Susannah S. Hoyt; grandson of
Frederick White Kimball and Mary Fletcher Hinman; great-
grandson of John Kimball and Eunice White; great2-grandson of
John Kimball, Member Committee of Safety of Concord, New
Hampshire.
NELSON F. KIMBALL, Weiser, Idaho (14827). Son of Gilbert
Hamilton Kimball and Sarah Ordway; grandson of John Kim-
ball and Lucinda Fowler; great-grandson of John Kimball and
Susan Eastman ; great2-grandson of Abraham Kimball, private, Stick-
ney's Reg't, New Hampshire Troops.
EDWARD CAMPBELL LITTLE, Abilene, Kan. (12096). Son of T.
Little and Sarah Elliot Taylor; grandson of Jonathan Taylor and
Sarah Elliot; great-grandson of Samuel Elliot, private Maryland
Militia ; grandson of T. Little and Eunice Weekes ; great-grandson
of Thomas Little and Lydia Jackson ; great2-grandson of Theophi-
lus Little, Captain Monmouth County, New Jersey, State troops.
EDWARD L. MAXWELL, Pittsburg, Kan. (14829). Son of William
A. Maxwell and Nancy Taylor Guess; grandson of Alexander
Maxwell and Hannah Armstrong ; great-grandson of Edward Max-
well, private, McNiel's Reg't Georgia Troops.
WILLARD MERRIAM, Kansas City, Kan. (14834)- Son of Horace
Merriam and Eliza Wright; grandson of John Wright and Jane
Cowan; great-grandson of Samuel Wright and Hannah Welsh;
great2-grandson of Samuel Wright, private New York Militia and
Line, pensioned.
ELIPHALET L. PATEE, Manhattan, Kan. (14832). Son of Alva Patee
and Roxa Smith; grandson of Edmund Patee, fifer Mass. Line,
pensioned.
ASON G. RICHARDSON, Wichita, Kan. (12100). Son of Rufus
Richardson and Jemima G. Richardson; grandson of Jesse Rich-
ardson, private Conn, troops, pensioned.
260 NATIONAL SOCIETY
HARRY TORRY SALISBURY, Burlington, Kan. (12097). Son of
George Salisbury and Mahala Sawyer; grandson of John Salis-
bury and Elizabeth Adams; great-grandson of Gideon Salisbury,
private, Graham's Reg't, New York Levies ; also of Chester Adams,
private Third Ulster County New York Levies.
JOHN WATTS, Newton, Kan. (14828). Son of John Sebree Watts
and Elizabeth Ann Howe; grandson of John Watts and Frances
Sebree; great-grandson of John Watts, Captain First Continental
Dragoons.
WILLIAM D. WOODFORD, Topeka, Kan. (14833)- Son of John R.
Woodford and Armenia E. Footner ; grandson of Ira Woodford and
Sulhena Hulbert ; great-grandson of Bissel Woodford, private, Gray's
Conn. Reg't, pensioned.
KENTUCKY SOCIETY.
CHARLES THRUSTON BALLARD, Louisville, Ky. (2614). (Correc-
tion of Register.) Son of Andrew Jackson Ballard and Fanny
(Thruston) Ballard.
SAMUEL THRUSTON BALLARD, Louisville, Ky. (2615). (Correc-
tion of Register.) Son of Andrew Jackson Ballard and Fanny
(Thruston) Ballard.
C. H. DIETRICK, Hopkinsville, Ky. (13328). Son of John Jacob N.
Dietrick and Elizabeth Boyes; grandson of Jacob Dietrich, private
Sixth Penna. Line.
GEORGE GRIFFITH FETTER, Louisville, Ky. (13331). Son of George
G. Fetter and Catherine Ann Mercer Gray; grandson of John
Thompson Gray and Mary Ormsby; great-grandson of George
Gray, Captain Fourth Continental Dragoons.
CHARLES JULIAN CLARKE GRANT, Louisville, Ky. (2543). Son of
Emory Alfred Grant, M.D., LL.D., and Ellen Clarke; grandson of
Loring Grant and Betsey Keeney great-grandson of Isaac Grant,
Sergeant Conn, troops, on prison ship "Jersey" ; grandson of Joseph
Clarke and Harriet Julian; great-grandson of Charles Julian;
great2-grandson of John Julian, Surgeon Virginia Continental Line ;
great-grandson of Matthew Clarke, private Virginia Line.
EDWARD STOKES SHIPPEN, Louisville, Ky. (13330). Son of Ed-
ward Shippen and Ellen Stokes; grandson of Henry Shippen and
Elizabeth Wallis Evans; great-grandson of Evan Rice Evans and
Grace Wallis ; great2-grandson of Evan Rice Evans, Colonel Chester
County, Penna., Militia.
WILLIAM WORTH STEPHENSON, Harrodsburg, Ky. (13329). Son
of A. T. Stephenson and Elizabeth Ann Smith ; grandson of Joseph
H. Stephenson and Mary Tribble; great-grandson of Thomas Ste-
venson, private Virginia troops; also of Andrew Tribble and Sally
Burris ; great2-grandson of Thomas Burris, Sergeant Third Virginia
Continental Line.
ROGERS CLARK BALLARD THURSTON, Louisville, Ky. (2618).
(Correction of Register.) Son of Andrew Jackson Ballard and
Fanny (Thurston) Ballard, baptized as Ballard but added his
mother's name by act of County Court of Fayette County, Ky.
LOUISIANA SOCIETY.
JOSEPH PAXTON BLAIR, New Orleans, La. (10065). Son of David
Paxton Blair and Elizabeth Pope; grandson of Joseph Blair and
Rachel Paxton; great-grandson of Thomas Paxton and Mary
Barclay ; great2-grandson of Hugh Barclay, private Penna. Line.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 26l
CHARLES STEWART MATHEWS, Raceland, La. (10063). Son of
Charles Lewis Mathews and Penelope Stewart; grandson of
George Mathews and Harriet Flower; great-grandson of George
Mathews, Colonel Ninth Virginia Reg't.
JOHN T. MOORE, Jr., Schrierer, La. (10067). Son of John Thomas
Moore and Julia Moore ; grandson of John Pettus Moore and Maiy
Jane Matthews; great-grandson of Elijah Matthews and Zibiah
Mand; great2-grandson of Elijah Matthews, sailor, killed in service
on Penna. privateer "Mars."
EDWARD RIGHTOR, New Orleans, La. (10064). Son of Nicholas
Henry Rightor and Louise Scudday ; grandson of Abraham Francis
of Josiah Robinson and Susannah Dow; great2-grandson of Levi
Robinson, private New Hampshire Continental troops, pensioned.
HENRY RIGHTOR, New Orleans, La. (10066). Son of Nicholas
Henry Rightor and Louise Scudday; grandson of Abraham
Francis Rightor and Elizabeth Ann Conway, great-grandson of
Nicholas Rightor, private, Klock's New York Reg't, pensioned.
GORDON ROBINSON, U. S. A., Governor's Island, N. Y. (10062). Son
of William M. Robinson and Margaret Frances Johns ; grandson of
Isaac Leavitt Robinson and Tirzah Gilman Gordon ; great-grandson
of Josiah Robinson and Susannah Dow ; great2-grandson of Levi
Robinson, private New Hampshire Continental troops, pensioned.
MAINE SOCIETY.
DELBERT WESTON ADAMS, Augusta, Me. (14769). Son of David
Weston Adams and Amanda M. Brown; grandson of David Far-
num Adams and Dorcas V. Glines; great-grandson of Chandler
Glines and Betsey Davis ; great2-grandson of Israel (and Molly Vir-
gin) Glines, private New Hampshire Continental troops ; great3-
grandson of Ebeneezer Virgin, Lieutenant New Hampshire Militia;
great-grandson of Joseph Adams and Betsey Farnum; great-grand-
son of David Farnum and Dorcas Wheeler; great3-grandson of
Stephen Farnum, private, Nichols' Reg't, New Hampshire Volun-
teers.
ISAAC HOBART ALLAN, Edmunds, Me. (13700). Son of Nelson
Sargent Allan and Abagaile G. Hobart; grandson of Theophilus
Wilder Allan and Martha R. Sargent; great-grandson of Mark
Allan and Susannah Wilder; great2-grandson of John Allan,
Colonel of Mass. Militia, Superintendent of Eastern Indians.
ALBERT GALLATIN ANDREWS, Augusta, Me. ( 14759)- Son of
Solomon Andrews and Martha R. Towle; grandson of John
Andrews, private New Hampshire troops, pensioned.
EDWARD WISNER BARTLETT, Lewiston, Me. ( 14755). Son of
Jeremiah Dole Bartlett and Ann Morrill Ewens ; grandson of
Jonas Bartlett and Hannah Plummer Dole ; great-grandson of
Jeremiah Dole, Corporal Mass. Militia and Continental troops.
EUGENE CLAREMONT CARLL, Buxton, Me. (14762). Son of Wil-
liam F. Carll and Abbie A. Carll ; grandson of George Carll and
Eunice Watts; great-grandson of David Watts, First Lieutenant
Twelfth Mass. Line.
GEORGE BONNEY CARLL, Kennebunkport, Me. (14761). Son of
George Carll and Eunice Watts; grandson of David Watts, First
Lieutenant Twelfth Mass. Line.
LEONARD D WIGHT CARVER, Augusta, Me. (14767). Son of Cyrus
Carver and Mary Waterhouse ; grandson of John Waterhouse and
Elizabeth Jackson; great-grandson of George Waterhouse, Second
Lieutenant New Hampshire troops.
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ORESTES EATON CROWELL, Oakland, Me. (13692). (Supplemental.)
Son of Elbridge Gerry Crowell and Sarah Eaton ; grandson of
Benjamin Eaton and Mary Moore; great-grandson of Benjamin
Eaton and Lydia Ireland, private Mass. Militia; great2-grandson of
Person Eaton, private Mass. Continental troops ; grandson of Bax-
ter Crowell and Elizabeth Hallett; great-grandson of Levi (and
Deborah Baxter) Crowell, private Mass. Coast Guards ; great2-
grandson of Joseph Crowell, Member Yarmouth Committee of Cor-
respondence and Safety ; great-grandson of Elisha Hallett, Seaman
on sloop "Republic."
ALDEN ELIPHALET DOUGHTY, Augusta, Me. (14765). Son of
George W. T. Doughty and Mary Elizabeth Dwinal; grandson of
Charles Thaxter Doughty and Jamima Fay Young; great-grand-
son of Charles Young and Mary Ann Buck; great2-grandson of
Nathaniel Young, private Mass. Militia and Line, pensioned.
FRANK ELBRIDGE DRAKE, Augusta, Me. (14751). Son of Elbridge
Drake and Frances M. Elwell ; grandson of Warren Drake and
Melinda Lothrop ; great-grandson of Oliver Drake, private Mass.
Continental Service, marine on frigate "Boston."
ALBERT FOSTER DRUMMOND, Waterville, Me. (6510). (Supple-
mental.) Son of Everett R. Drummond and Aubigne Bean; grand-
son of Benjamin Woodleigh Bean and Lucetta Foster; great-
grandson of Thomas Dresser Foster and Nancy Paul ; great2-
grandson of William Foster, Sergeant Twenty-seventh Mass. Reg't,
pensioned.
ERNEST GARDNER EDWARDS, South Norridgewock, Me. (14766).
Son of William N. Edwards and Lydia E. Whittier; grandson of
Bryce S. Edwards and Abigail Flood ; great-grandson of Edmund
Flood and Martha Lombard ; great2-grandson of Calvin Lombard,
private, Phinney's Mass. Reg't, Member Committee of Safety;
grandson of John Whittier and Lydia Mitchell; great-grandson of
William Mitchell and Betsey Everett ; great2-grandson of Josiah
Everett, Jr., private Mass. troops.
CYRIL PEARL HARMON, West Buxton, Me. (14760). Son of Benja-
min Harmon and Rebecca Tucker ; grandson of Dominicus Harmon
and Susanna Freeman; great-grandson of Jonathan Harmon; private,
Mitchell's Mass. Milita Reg't.
FRANKLIN HERBERT HAZELTON, Portland, Me. (6397). (Supple-
mental.) Son of Ivory Hazelton and Jane Richards; grandson of
Edward Richards and Sarah Tukey; great-grandson of William
Tukey, private Mass. Militia and privateersman, pensioned.
CHARLES JAMES HOUSE, Augusta, Me. (6362). (Supplemental.)
Son of Charles House and Margaret Pennell ; grandson of William
Pennell and Lucy Johnson ; great-grandson of Thomas Pennell
and Alice Anderson; great2-grandson of Jacob Anderson, private
Thirty-first Mass. Foot, Member of Brunswick Committee of Safety.
CHARLES HUTCHINSON. Portland, Me. (6537). (Supplemental.)
Son of Rawson Hutchinson and Sophia Cummings ; grandson of
Asa Cummings, private Mass. Continental troops.
WILLIAM BLAKE JOSEPHS, Portland, Me. (13690). (Supplemental.)
Son of William Wilson Josephs and Anna Maria Dennis ; grand-
son of Manuel Josephs and Susannah Wilson; great-grandson of
William Wilson and Martha Clark ; great2-grandson of Josiah
Clark, private, Jonathan Mitchell's Mass. Militia, Penobscot Expedi-
tion.
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GEORGE NICKELS LAWRENCE, Augusta, Me. (14758). Son of
Daniel Lawrence and Sophia Elizabeth Duell ; grandson of Edward
Lawrence and Abigail Wells; great-grandson of David Lawrence,
private, Colburn's Company of Minute Men; grandson of Silas
Duell and Elizabeth Stevens; great-grandson of Caleb Stevens,
private Twenty-seventh Foot, and Moses Nichols' New Hampshire
Reg't.
ARTHUR WATSON LEONARD, Oakland, Me. (14764). Son of Wat-
son V. Leonard and Irene Stuart ; grandson of Wentworth Stuart
and Thankful Hallett ; great-grandson of Elisha Hallett, Seaman on
Mass. sloop "Republic," pensioned.
GEORGE LEWIS, South Berwick, Me. (14768). Son of Lathrop Lewis
and Mary Jones; grandson of George Lewis and Ruth Lincoln;
great-grandson of George Lewis, Major First Barnstable County,
Mass., Reg't.
GEORGE LOTHROP LEWIS, Brunswick, Me. (14753). Son of George
Lewis and Katharine B. McClellan ; grandson of Lothrop Lewis
and Mary Jones ; great-grandson of George Lewis and Ruthy Lin-
coln; great2-grandson of George Lezvis, Major First Barnstable
County, Mass., Reg't.
CLIFTON KEITH LORING, Nelson, B. C, Canada ( 14757). Son of
Frederic Hayden Loring and Elizabeth Marion McLeod; grandson
of Bela Wilder Loring and Helen Maria Hayden; great-grandson
of Richard Vose Hayden and Abiah Hazeltine Buck; great2-grand
son of Charles Hayden and Mary Howard; great3-grandson of
Josiah Hayden, Major Twenty-third Mass. Line.
FREDERICK SYLVESTER LYMAN, Augusta, Me. (13699). Son of
Sylvester Strong Lyman and Lucinda Smith Gaylord ; grandson of
Sylvester Lyman and Naomi Janes ; great-grandson of Noah Janes,
Corporal Mass. Militia ; grandson of Josiah Gaylord and Lucinda
Smith ; great-grandson of John Gaylord, Member South Hadley
Committee of Correspondence, Safety and Inspection, also of Lemuel
Lyman and Lydia Clark; great2-grandson of Eliakim Clark, private
Mass. Militia.
NATHANIEL MASON MARSHALL, Portland, Me. (6494). (Supple-
, mental.) Son of Isaac Whittemore Marshall and Lydia Hutchin-
son Heen; grandson of Moses Marshall and Ruth Whittemore;
great-grandson of David Marshall, private Mass. Militia.
CHARLES HAWLEY MEEKER, South Portland, Me. (14770). Son of
Benjamin Meeker and Henrietta Smith ; grandson of Jonathan
Meeker and Sally Ogden ; great-grandson of Benjamin Meeker,
recognized patriot, of Fairfield, Conn., prisoner in Old Sugar House,
New York.
JOHN CUSHING MERRILL, Portland, Me. (6437). (Supplemental.)
Son of Jonathan Cushing Merrill and Sarah Joy; grandson of
Roger Merrill and Dorothy Cushing ; great-grandson of Nathaniel
Merrill and Mary Sargent; great2-grandson of Roger Merrill, pri-
vate New Hampshire and Mass. Continental troops; great-grandson
of John Cushing, Colonel Second Plymouth County, Mass., Reg't.
BENJAMIN LAKE NO YES, Stonington, Me. (13698). Son of George
Boardman Noyes and Sarah Elizabeth Lake ; grandson of Benjamin
Read Lake and Sally Cobb Robinson ; great-grandson of Eli Lake,
private Mass. Militia, also of Elisha Warren Robinson, private Mass,
Militia.
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DAVID JEWETT NO YES, Stonington, Me. (14756). Son of George
Boardman Noyes and Sarah Elizabeth Lake ; grandson of Benjamin
Read Lake and Sally Cobb Robinson ; great-grandson of Eli Lake,
private Mass. Militia.
ALBERT MANCHESTER PENLEY, Auburn, Me. (6509.) (Supple-
mental.) Son of John Penley and Julia Ann Wagg; grandson of
Samuel Wagg and Mary Dingley; great-grandson of James Wagg,
private Mass. Continental troops.
WALDO PETTENGILL, Rumford Falls, Me. (14752). Son of Oliver
Pettengill and Hulda Baker; grandson of Elisha Pettengill and
Mehitable Hubbard ; great-grandson of Matthew Pettengill, private
Mass. Continental troops, marine on frigate "Boston," pensioned.
PARKER McCOBB REED, Bath, Me. (6410). (Supplemental.) Son of
Andrew Reed and Beatrice McCobb; grandson of Paul (and Mar-
gory Beath) Reed, Master of Mass. Letters of Marque, Commissary
Mass. Militia ; great-grandson of John Beath, Naval Officer for Port
of Townsend, Mass.
ALBERT RUSSELL, Portland, Me. (14763)- Son of Foster Russell
and Martha Hodgkins; grandson of Daniel Russell and Sarah
Sutton ; great-grandson of Richard Sutton, Second Lieutenant,
Pickering's Mass. Reg't.
WILLIAM KENNEDY SANDERSON, Portland, Me. ( 14754). Son of
Benjamin Sanderson and Mary Elizabeth Little; grandson of
Joshua Little and Sally Johnson ; great-grandson of Abijah Little
and Lydia Noyes; great2-grandson of Joshua Little, Lieutenant
Mass. troops ; great3-grandson of Samuel Little, Member Provincial
Congress.
FRANK KINGSBURY SHAW, Waterville, Me. (10568). (Supple-
mental.) Son of Benjamin F. Shaw and Mary Jane Pratt; grand-
son of Benjamin Pratt and Betsey Safford; great-grandson of
Thomas Pratt, private Cumberland County, Mass., Militia, also of
Nathan Safford, private, Johnson's Mass. Reg't.
ABNER RALPH SMALL, Oakland, Me. (13686). (Supplemental.) Son
of Abner Small and Mary Ann Bernard Randall ; grandson of
William Small and Sarah March ; great-grandson of Samuel Small,
Member Scarboro Committee of Correspondence and Safety, Member
Mass. State Convention of 1778.
MARYLAND SOCIETY.
FRED. S. AXTELL, Baltimore, Md. (15008.) Son of Albert B. Axtell
and Alice Axtell; grandson of Timothy C. Axtell and Rachel
Axtell; great-grandson of David Axtell; great2-grandson of
Henry Axtell, Major Eastern Battalion Morris County, New Jersey,
Militia.
GEORGE L. VAN BIBBER, Bel Air, Md. (15218). Son of George L.
Van Bibber and Hannah C. Archer; grandson of Stevenson
Archer and Pamelia Hays; great-grandson of John Archer, Major
Harford County, Maryland, Militia, Delegate to Provincial Con-
vention 1776.
VAN-LEAR BLACK, Baltimore, Md. (15913)- Son of H. Crawford
Black and Ida Perry; grandson of Thimas Johns Perry and Mary
Louisa Van-Lear; great-grandson of William H. Van-Lear and
Louisa Christian Smith; great2-grandson of William (and Sarah
Sargent) Van-Lear, Captain Fifth Penna. Regulars; great3-grandson
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of Samuel Sargent, Chairman of New Jersey Revolutionary Commit-
tee ; great-grandson of Roger Perry and Lucy Calmes ; great-grand-
son of George (and Lucy Price) Calmes, First Lieutenant Virginia
Line; great3-grandson of Thomas Price, Colonel Second Maryland
Reg't; greats-grandson of Charles Perry; great3-grandson of
James Perry, Member Frederick County Army Supply Committee.
CHURCHILL GORDON BLACKWELL, Baltimore, Md. (15024). Son
of William S. Blackwell and Julia T. Nutt ; grandson of William
S. Blackwell and Ann Gordon ; great-grandson of Joseph Blackwell,
Captain Virginia Line, prisoner.
SAMUEL THOMAS BROWN, Baltimore, Md. ( 13374)- Son of Samuel
Bbown and Elizabeth Jenkins ; grandson of John Riggs Brown and
Sarah Gassaway; great-grandson of Bride (and Kitty Warfield)
Gassaway, First Lieutenant Maryland troops, also of Samuel Brown,
Second Lieutenant Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Militia ; great2-
grandson of Azel Warfield, recognized patriot of Maryland.
WILLIAM HAND BROWNE, Sherwood, Md. (15201). Son of Willard
Browne and Patience Hand; grandson of Nathan Browne, First
Lieutenant Twentieth Battalion Queen Anne's County, Maryland,
Militia.
WILSON LEE CAMDEN, Baltimore, Md. (15007). Son of John Allen
Camden and Mary Nelson; grandson of Gideon Draper Camden
and Sallie A. Hoffman ; great-grandson of Henry Camden and Mary
Belt Sprigg ; great2-grandson of Frederick Sprigg, Captain Maryland
Militia.
JULIAN STUART CARTER, Baltimore, Md. (15004). Son of Bernard
Carter and Mary Ridgely; grandson of Charles Henry Carter
and Rosalie Eugenia Calvert ; great-grandson of Bernard Moore
Carter and Lucy Lee; great2-grandson of Henry Lee, "Light Horse
Harry," Lieutenant-Colonel Continental Dragoons.
[Correction of National Register.]
CHARLES CHAILLE-LONG, Paris, France (1045). Son of Littleton
Long and Anne M. Costen; grandson of Levin Long and Comfort
Chaille ; great-grandson of Peter Chaille, Colonel Maryland Militia,
Member of Maryland Association of Freemen.
[Correction of National Register.]
♦LITTLETON LONG, died 1890 (1046). Son of Littleton Long and
Anne M. Costen; grandson of Levin Long and Comfort Chaille;
great-grandson of Peter Chaille, Colonel Maryland Militia, Member
Maryland Association of Freemen.
HENRY E. CHALLIS, Baltimore, Md. (15202). Son of Josiah Edson
Challis and Lydia Baker ; grandson of Enoch Challis and Susanna
Oak; great-grandson of Thomas Challis, Sergeant Second New
Hampshire Reg't.
HENRY E. CHALLIS, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (15203). Son of Henry E.
Challis and Sarah A. Challis ; grandson of Josiah Edson Challis
and Lydia Baker; great-grandson of Enoch Challis and Susanna
Oak; great2-grandson of Thomas Challis, Sergeant Second New
Hampshire Reg't.
WILLIAM F. COALE, Elkins, West Va. (15003). Son of Samuel Chase
Coale and Martha Votam; grandson of Skipwith H. Coale and
Eliza Chase; great-grandson of Samuel Chase, Signer of Declaration
of Independence.
FRANCIS ALTON COLLINS, Flushing, N. Y. (13367). Son of Wil-
liam Collins and Leah Sophia Griffin ; grandson of James Griffin
and Sarah Stuart ; great-grandson of Nathan Griffin, private Second
Maryland Regulars.
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HENRY CLINTON COLLINS. Trappe, Md. (13368). Son of William
Collins and Leah Sophia Griffin; grandson of James Griffin and
Sarah Stuart; great-grandson of Nathan Griffin, private Second
Maryland Regulars.
ERNEST RIDGELY CRAPSTER, Baltimore, Md. (13361). Son of
Mortimer Dorsey Crapster and Georgetta Warfield ; grandson of
William Warfield and Eleanor Watkins; great-grandson of Gassa-
way Watkins, Captain Fifth Maryland Line.
SAMUEL GRIFFITH DAVIS, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (15020). Son of
Samuel Griffith Davis and Annie E. G. Davis; grandson of
Septimus Davis and Frances Griffith; great-grandson of Samuel
Goldsmith Griffith and Mary Seybold; great2-grandson of Samuel
Griffith, Captain Third Maryland Line.
ROBERT A. DOBBIN, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (15022). Son of Robert A.
Dobbin and Elizabeth Swan Key; grandson of James Swan and
Elizabeth Donnell ; great-grandson of John Swan, Major Baltimore
Light Dragoons ; grandson of Philip Barton Key and Ellen Swan ;
great-grandson of Francis Scott Key and Mary Taylor Lloyd ;
great2-grandson of Edward Lloyd, IV., Member Maryland General
Assembly, also of John Ross Key, Second Lieutenant Maryland
Rifle Battalion.
JOSEPH HERBERT FORD, U. S. A, Washington Barracks. D. C.
(13369). Son of Samuel Ford and Ellen H. Ford; grandson of
John Ford and Elizabeth Ford ; great-grandson of Charles Ford
and Mary Ford ; great2-grandson of John Ford, Captain Maryland
Militia.
EDWARD MACDONALD GREEN WAY, San Francisco, Cal. (15002).
Son of William W. Greenway and Marie Williams ; great-grandson
of George Williams and Elizabeth Bordeley Hawkins; great-grand-
son of Joseph Williams and Susannah May; great2-grandson of
Joseph Williams, Member of Mass. Provincial Council, Muster
Master Mass. Militia.
JOHN MILTON GRIFFITH, Baltimore, Md. (15213). Son of John T.
Griffith and Emma T. Reigart ; grandson of Henry F. Reigart
and Maria E, Hughes; great-grandson of John E. Hughes and
Juliana S. B. Wirsenthal ; great2-grandson of Charles Frederick
Wirsenthal, Surgeon-Major First Maryland Battalion.
EDWARD HORACE HAMMOND. Baltimore, Md. ( 13375). Son of
Horace Hammond and Elvia Sophia Smith; grandson of Leonard
Smith and Nancy Pierce; great-grandson of Ephraim Pierce and
Anna Parker; great2-grandson of John Parker, Captain Lexington
Minute Men, April 19. 1775.
JAMES E. HANCOCK, Baltimore. Md. (15016). Son of John F
Hancock and Frances A. Etchlerger; grandson of John Hancock
and Mary Leeke ; great-grandson of Francis Hancock and Minna
Selby ; great2-grandson of Stephen Hancock, private Maryland Line_
J. WILLIAM HANCOCK, Baltimore, Md. (15017). Son of John Francis
Hancock and Frances A. Etchlerger; grandson of John Hancock
and Mary Leeke ; great-grandson of Francis Hancock and Minna
Selby; great2-grandson of Stephen Hancock, private Maryland Line..
NICHOLAS SNOWDEN HILL, Baltimore, Md. (15209). Son ol
Charles Hill and Ann Elizabeth Snowden ; grandson of Nicholas
Snowden and Elizabeth Thomas ; great-grandson of Samuel
Thomas and Ann Warfield ; great2-grandson of Charles Alexander
Warfield, led the "Whigs" who burned the "Peggy Stewart." Jus-
tice of the Peace, 1777.
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JOHN HOOD, Baltimore, Md. (15005). Son of George Hood and Cath-
erine Elizabeth Duvall; grandson of John Hood and Tabitha Wolf;
great-grandson of James Hood, Corporal and Quartermaster-Ser-
geant Fourth Maryland Line.
JAMES ALDEN HOUSTON, Baltimore, Md. (13362). Son of George
Porter Houston and Mary Houston ; grandson of Samuel Houston
and Agnes Humes; great-grandson of James Humes and Agnes
Crain; great2-grandson of Joseph Crain, Captain Sixth Maryland
Battalion.
JOHN BAKER THOMPSON HULL, Baltimore, Md. (15204). Son of
Robert Hull and Susan Rebecca Thompson; grandson of Lucas
Powell Thompson and Caroline Tapscott ; great-grandson of John
Thompson and Rebecca Edwards Powell ; great2-grandson of Lucas
Powell, Member of Amherst County, Virginia, Army Levies Com-
mittee.
NATHANIEL GARLAND KEIRLE, Baltimore, Md. (13370). Son of
Matthew Murfin Keirle and Sarah Jacobs Garland; grandson of
Nathaniel Garland and Lydia Jacobs ; great-grandson of Benjamin
Jacobs, Lieutenant, Pickering's Mass. Reg't.
NATHANIEL GARLAND KEIRLE, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (i3370- Son
of Nathaniel Garland Keirle and Mary E. Jones ; grandson of
Matthew M. Keirle and Sarah Jacobs Garland ; great-grandson of
Nathaniel Garland and Lydia Jacobs ; great2-grandson of Benja-
min Jacobs, Lieutenant, Pickering's Mass. Reg't.
GEORGE WASHINGTON McCREARY, Baltimore, Md. (15001). Son
of James A. McCreary and Hannah M. Raynor ; grandson of Jacob.
Raynor and Catherine Anne Poore; great-grandson of William
Raynor and Maria Romaine ; great2-grandson of Daniel Raynor,
private Second Dutchess County, New York, Militia.
WILLIAM MASON MAYNADIER, Baltimore, Md. (15215). Son of
John H. Maynadier and Laura Matilda Littig; grandson of Henry
Gustavus Maynadier and Elizabeth Yellot; great-grandson of
William Murray Maynadier and Sarah Brown ; great2-grandson
of William Brown, Surgeon-General Continental Army.
LAWSON V. MOORE, Baltimore, Md. (15216). Son of William Law-
son Moore and Virginia Neel ; grandson of William Moore and
Elizabeth Lawson Moore; great-grandson of William Moore and
Oliver Free ; great2-grandson of William Moore, private North
Carolina Continental Line, Delegate to Constitutional Convention of
1776.
HARRY NICODEMUS, Baltimore, Md. (15011). Son of Josiah Court-
ney Nicodemus and Mary J. Montandon ; grandson of John Nico-
demus and Margaret Potter; great-grandson of Frederick Nicode-
mus, First Lieutenant Washington County, Maryland, Militia.
KENNEDY R. OWEN, Baltimore, Md. (15205). Son of William
Tilghman Owen and Mary Buchanan; grandson of Franklin
Buchanan and Ann Lloyd; great-grandson of George Buchanan
and Laetitia McKean ; great2-grandson of Thomas McKeari, Signer
of Declaration of Independence.
GEORGE FREDERICK PORTER, Baltimore, Md. (15025). Son of
George J. Porter and Helen Cooch; grandson of Levi G. Cooch
and Sarah Conant; great-grandson of William Cooch and Mar-
garet Hollingswqrth ; great2-grandson of Thomas (and Sarah Grif-
fith) Cooch, private Patterson's Battalion; great3-grandson of
Thomas Cooch, Colonel New Castle County, Delaware, troops.
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GILBERT B. PORTER, Baltimore, Md. (15206). Son of George J.
Porter and Helen Cooch; grandson of Levi Cooch and Sarah
Conant Wilkins; great-grandson of William Cooch and Mar-
garet Hollingsworth ; great2-grandson of Thomas (and Sarah Grif-
fith) Cooch, private Patterson's Battalion; great3-grandson of
Thomas Cooch, Colonel New Castle County, Delaware, troops.
LLOYD RAWLINGS, Cumberland, Md. (15207). Son of William L.
Rawlings and Gueldie E. Rawlings ; grandson of Moses Rawlings
and Rebecca McCulloh ; great-grandson of Moses Rawlings, Colonel
Maryland Rifles.
D. MEREDITH REESE, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (13363)- Son of David
Meredith Reese and Florence Merryman Dougherty; grandson of
John Wright Dougherty and Priscilla Ann Jessop ; great-grandson
of James Jessop and Ann Merryman Britton; great2-grandson of
Richard Britton and Temperance Talbot; great5-grandson of Ed-
ward Talbot, Member Maryland Provincial Convention of 1775, and
of Council of Safety, also of Nicholas Britton, Member Baltimore
Committee of Observation, 1775.
CHARLES EDWARD SADTLER, Baltimore, Md. (15217). Son of
Philip B. Sadtler and Caroline Elizabeth Schmucker; grandson of
Samuel S. Schmucker and Mary Catherine Steenbergen; great-
grandson of William Steenbergen and Elizabeth Beale; great2-
grandson of Tavener Beale and Elizabeth Hite ; great8-grandson of
Tavener Beale, Lieutenant Eighth Virginia Line.
HENRY SHRIVER, Mt. Savage, Md. (15023). Son of Henry
Shriver and Sarah Sargent Van-Lear Perry; grandson of Joseph
Shriver and Henrietta J. Causten ; great-grandson of An-
drew Shriver and Elizabeth Shultz ; great2-grandson of David
Shriver, Member Frederick County, Maryland, Committee of Safety ;
grandson of Thomas Johns Perry and Mary Louisa Van-Lear;
great-grandson of William H. Van-Lear and Louisa Christian
Smith; great2-grandson of William (and Sarah Sargent) Van-Lear,
Captain Fifth Penna. Line ; great3-grandson of Samuel Sargent,
Chairman New Jersey Revolutionary Committees ; great-grandson of
Roger Perry and Lucy Calmes ; great2-grandson of George (and
Lucy Price) Calmes, First Lieutenant Virginia Line ; great-grand-
son of Thomas Price, Colonel Second Maryland Reg't ; great-grand-
son of Charles Perry ; great3-grandson of James Perry, Member
Frederick County Army Supply Committee.
JOSEPH ALEXIS SHRIVER, Olney, Md. (15208). Son of John Alex-
ander Shriver and Olivia Brengle; grandson of John Shultz
Shriver and Henrietta Meyer; great-grandson of Andrew Shriver
and Elizabeth Shultz; great2-grandson of David Shriver, Sr., Mem-
ber Maryland Convention of 1776.
ROBERT SARGENT SHRIVER, Cumberland, Md. (15009). Son of
Henry Shriver and Sarah Sargent Van- Lear Perry; grandson of
Joseph Shriver and Henrietta J. Causten; great-grandson of An-
drew Shriver and Elizabeth Shultz; great2-grandson of David
Shriver, Member Frederick County, Maryland, Committee of Safety ;
grandson of Thomas Johns Perry and Mary Louisa Van-Lear;
great-grandson of William H. Van-Lear and Louisa Christian
Smith ; great2-grandson of William (and Sarah Sargent) Van-Lear,
Captain Fifth Penna. Line; greats-grandson of Samuel Sargent,
Chairman New Jersey Revolutionary Committees ; great-grandson of
Roger Perry and Lucy Calmes; great2-grandson of George (and
Lucy Price) Calmes, First Lieutenant Virginia Line; greaf-grand-
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son of Thomas Price, Colonel Second Maryland Reg't ; great-grand-
son of Charles Perry; great3-grandson of James Perry, Member
Frederick County Army Supply Committee.
VAN-LEAR PERRY SHRIVER, Cumberland, Md. (15010). Son of
Henry Shriver and Sarah Sargent Van-Lear Perry; grandson of
Joseph Shriver and Henrietta J. Causten; great-grandson of An-
drew Shriver and Elizabeth Shultz; great2-grandson of David
Shriver, Member Frederick County, Maryland, Committee of Safety ;
grandson of Thomas Johns Perry and Mary Louisa Van-Lear;
great-grandson of William H. Van-Lear and Louisa Christian
Smith; great2-grandson of William (and Sarah Sargent) Van-Lear,
Captain Fifth Penna. Line; great3-grandson of Samuel Sargent,
Chairman New Jersey Revolutionary Committees ; great-grandson of
Roger Perry and Lucy Calmes; great2-grandson of George (and
Lucy Price) Calmes, First Lieutenant Virginia Line; great3-grand-
son of Thomas Price, Colonel Second Maryland Reg't ; great-grand-
son of Charles Perry ; greats-grandson of James Perry, Member
Frederick County Army Supply Committee.
JOHN O. SKINNER, U. S. A., Chambersburg, Pa. (13364). Son of John
J. Skinner and Emeline Jones ; grandson of Zacariah Skinner and
Hannah Bond Jones; great-grandson of John Jones, Captain First
Maryland Battalion; great2-grandson of Thomas Jones, Second Ma-
jor Nineteenth Battalion Maryland Militia.
JOHN EDMONDS STOCKETT, Stockett, Mont. (13365). Son of
Thomas Richard Stockett and Jemima Caston Edmonds ; grandson
of Joseph Noble Stockett and Sophia Watkins; great-grandson of
Thomas Noble Stockett, First Lieutenant Ann Arundel County,
Maryland, Militia, Surgeon Maryland Line.
THOMAS RICHARD STOCKETT, Jr., Fernie, B. C, Canada. (13366).
Son of Thomas Richard Stockett and Jemima Caston Edmonds;
grandson of Joseph Noble Stockett and Sophia Watkins; great-
grandson of Thomas Noble Stockett, First Lieutenant Ann Arundel
County, Maryland, Militia, Surgeon Maryland Line.
HARRY STONEBRAKER, Baltimore, Md. (15014). Son of Joseph R.
Stonebraker and Mary C. Bosler; grandson of Abraham Bosler
and Eliza Herman; great-grandson of Christine Herman and
Elizabeth Bower; great2-grandson of Martin Herman, private Cum-
berland County, Penna, Militia.
JAMES B. STONEBRAKER, Baltimore, Md. (15012). Son of Joseph
R. Stonebraker and Mary C. Bosler; grandson of Abraham Bosler
and Eliza Herman ; great-grandson of Christine Herman and
Elizabeth Bower; great2-grandson of Martin Herman, private Cum-
berland County, Penna, Militia.
JOSEPH R. STONEBRAKER, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (15015). Son of
Joseph R. Stonebraker and Mary C. Bosler ; grandson of Abraham
Bosler and Eliza Herman ; great-grandson of Christine Herman
and Elizabeth Bower ; great2-grandson of Martin Herman, private
Cumberland County, Penna., Militia.
CHARLES TOLAND WALTER, Baltimore, Md. (15021). Son of
Charles J. Walter and Laura I. Walsh; grandson of Charles
Walsh and Rebecca Walsh; great-grandson of Jacob Walsh and
Margaret Yates; great2-grandson of Thomas Yates, Captain Balti-
more County Troop and Fernald's Artillery.
CHARLES ALEXANDER WARFIELD, Pittsburg, Pa. (15212). Son of
Charles D. Warfteld and Isabella Warfield, grandson of Charles
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D. Warfield and Ruth Hammond Dorsey Griffith; great-grandson
of Philemon Griffith, Colonel Maryland Rifles, also of Charles Alex-
ander Warfield, led the "Whigs" who burned the "Peggy Stewart,"
Justice of the Peace, 1777.
GUSTAVUS WARFIELD, Glen wood, Md. (15019). Son of Evan W.
Warfield and Sarah Ann Warfield; grandson of Charles D. War-
field and Ruth Hammond Dorsey Griffith; great-grandson of
Philemon Griffith, Colonel Third Battalion Maryland Regulars, also
of Charles Alexander Warfield, led the "Whigs" who burned the
"Peggy Stewart," Justice of the Peace 1777.
HARRY RIDGELEY WARFIELD, Elkins, West. Va. (15211). Son of
Charles D. Warfield and Isabella Warfield; grandson of Charles
D. Warfield and Ruth Hammond Dorsey Griffith ; great-grandson of
Philemon Griffith, Colonel Maryland Rifles, also of Charles Alex-
ander Warfield, led the "Whigs" who burned the "Peggy Stewart,"
Justice of the Peace 1777.
MARSHALL T. WARFIELD, Florence, Md. (15018). Son of Albert
G. Warfield and Margaret Watkins ; grandson of Gassaway Wat-
kins, Captain Fifth Maryland Line.
PERREGRINE WARFIELD, Cumberland, Md. (15214). Son of
Charles D. Warfield and Isabella Warfield; grandson of Charles
D. Warfield and Ruth Hammond Dorsey Griffith ; great-grandson of
Philemon Griffith, Colonel Maryland Rifles, also of Charles Alex-
ander Warfield, led the "Whigs" who burned the "Peggy Stewart,"
Justice of the Peace 1777.
HENRY WILLIAM WARNER of JOHN, Baltimore, Md. (15006). Son
of John H. R. Warner and Ellen Shriver Grove; grandson of
Michael Warner and Julia A. Rogers ; great-grandson of John H.
Warner and Julia A. Nagle ; great2-grandson of Henry Nagle, Ser-
geant Penna. Rangers.
ARTHUR WEGEFARTH, Baltimore, Md. (13372). Son of Conrad
Wegefarth and Mary Elizabeth McArthur; grandson of William
McArthur and Ellen B. Hinds; great-grandson of William Mc-
Arthur and Rebecca McClean ; great2-grandson of Moses McClean,
Captain Sixth Penna. Battalion, prisoner.
GEORGE C. WEGEFARTH, Baltimore, Md. ( 13373). Son of Conrad
Wegefarth and Mary E. McArthur; grandson of William Mc-
Arthur and Ellen B. Hinds; great-grandson of William Mc-
Arthur and Rebecca McClean ; great2-grandson of Moses McClean,
Captain Sixth Penna. Battalion, prisoner.
HENRY WELLING WATKINS, Baltimore, Md. (15210). Son of
Thomas Gassaway Watkins and Catharine Welling; grandson of
William W. Watkins and Laura Watkins; great-grandson of
Gassaway Watkins, Captain Maryland Line.
STEVENSON A. WILLIAMS, Bel Air, Md. (15219). Son of Lewis J.
Williams and Harriet Hays Archer; grandson of Stevenson
Archer and Pamelia Barney Hays ; great-grandson of John Archer,
Major Harford County, Maryland, Militia, Delegate to Provincial
Convention 1776.
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY.
GEORGE HARRISON ALLEN, Lynn, Mass. ( 14959). Son of Jacob
Alvah Allen and Prudence Hyer; grandson of Jacob Allen and
Lucy Gallup; great-grandson of Isaac Allen, private Mass. troops;
great2-grandson of Jacob Allen, private Mass. troops ; great-grandson
of Enos Gallup, private Gerrish's Mass. Reg't.
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HORACE HALE ATHERTON, Jr., Lynn, Mass. (14960). Son of
Horace Hale Atherton and Hannah P. Oliver ; grandson of Arte-
mis. S. Atherton and Sarah A. Morse ; great-grandson of David
Atherton and Miriam Hawkes; great2-grandson of Amos Atherton,
private Mass. Continental troops.
BENJAMIN S. ATWOOD, Whitman, Mass. (14572). Son of Ruel
Atwood and Abigail Tilson; grandson of Nathaniel Atwood and
Hannah Shaw ; great-grandson of Ichabod Atwood and Hannah
Shaw ; great2-grandson of Nathaniel Shaw, Captain First Plymouth
County, Mass., Militia.
LUTHER ATWOOD, Lynn, Mass. (14961). Son of Luther Atwood
and Catherine Lucy Marsh; grandson of Jonathan Atwood and
Huldah Gurdy; great-grandson of Moses Atwood, private New
Hampshire Continental Line, pensioned.
GEORGE WILLIAM AUSTIN, Roxbury, Mass. (14982). Son of
George F. Austin and Josephine E. Stearns ; grandson of William
Stearns and Nancy Hicks Walker; great-grandson of Nehemiah
Walker and Elizabeth Francis ; great2-grandson of Elijah Walker,
Captain Second Bristol County, Mass., Reg't.
HENRY HERBERT AUSTIN, Boston, Mass. (14795). Son of William
W. Austin and Abby C. Austin ; grandson of Eldad Austin and
Naomi Austin ; great-grandson of Paul Austin and Mehitable
Lowell ; great2-grandson of William Lowell, private First New
Hampshire Continental troops, pensioned.
EDWARD FRANKLIN BACHELLER, Lynn, Mass. (14962). Son of
Nathaniel J. Bacheller and Arria L. Chase; grandson of Aaron
Bacheller and Sarah Mansfield Burrill; great-grandson of James
Burrill and Sally Breed ; great-grandson of Frederick Breed, Sec-
ond Lieutenant Mass. Line, pensioned ; great-grandson of James
Bacheller, private Farrington's Company, Mass. Militia; great2-
grandson of John Burrill, Jr., Seergeant Mass. troops ; great3-grand-
son of John Burrill, private Captain Mansfield's Mass. Militia ;
great*-grandson of Ebenezer Burrill, Member Mass. Provincial Con-
gress ; grandson of Blaney Chase and Eliza Doak ; great-grandson
of Benjamin Doak, Sergeant Mass. troops.
CHARLES HENRY BAILEY, Chelsea, Mass. (14566). Son of Charles
Henry Bailey and Ruth Waite; grandson of Joshua Simmons
Bailey and Elizabeth Richards ; great-grandson of Luther Richards
and Polly Battelle ; great2-grandson of Ebenezer Battelle, Major Suf-
folk County, Mass., Militia.
PERCY VERMILYE BALDWIN, Cambridge, Mass. ( 14999). Son of
Henry Waldron Baldwin and Mary Ann Vermilye; grandson of
Wickliffe Erastus Baldwin and Ann Elfrida Waldron; great-
grandson of Isaac Baldwin and Nancy Camp; great2-grandson of
Moses Baldwin, private Essex County, New Jersey, Militia, also of
James Camp, private Essex County, New Jersey, Militia.
EVERETT ALANSON BATES, Springfield, Mass. ( 14553)- Son of
Loren Bates and Lucy Mariah Carpenter; grandson of Elliott
Carpenter and Mariah Leavens Arnold; great-grandson of Samuel
Carpenter, private Eleventh Conn. Reg't; grandson of Alanson
Bates, Jr. ; great-grandson of Alanson Bates, Sr. ; great2-grandson
of John Bates, private Mass. Militia.
CHARLES THEODORE BAUER, Jamaica Plain, Mass. (15000). Son of
Charles Frederic Bauer and Rebecca Hopewell; grandson of
son of Beckett Hopewell and Rebecca Porter, great2-grandson of
Joseph Porter, private Burlington County, New Jersey, Militia;
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FREDERIC GILBERT BAUER, Jamaica Plain, Mass. (15151). Son of
Charles Theodore Bauer and Ada Marian Shute; grandson of
Charles Frederic Bauer and Rebecca Ann Hopewell; great-grand-
son of Beckett Hopewell and Rebecca Porter; great2-grandson of
Joseph Porter, private Burlington County, New Jersej', Militia;
grandson of James Gilbert Shute and Harriet Newell Home;
great-grandson of Samuel Horne and Lydia Blake ; great2-grandson
of Otis Horne and Mary Coffin ; great3-grandson of Ichabod Horne
and Sarah Baker; great4-grandson of Otis Baker, Member of New
Hampshire Committee of Safety, Colonel Second New Hampshire
Reg't ; great2-grandson of William Blake and Elizabeth Wingate ;
great3-grandson of Joshua Wingate, Colonel First New Hampshire
Reg't, also of William Blake, Sergeant Gilman's New Hampshire
Reg't, also of Abner Coffin, private Mass. and New Hampshire
troops.
WILLIAM ROBINSON BENNETT, Chelsea, Mass. (14800). Son of
William Michael Bennett and Charlotte Robinson; grandson of
John Robinson and Abigail Trask; great-grandson of Thomas
Robinson, Sergeant New Hampshire Continental troops.
ROBERT BIRD, Canton, Mass. ( 14573)- Son of Robert Bird and Eliza
A. Gerald; grandson of John Gerald and Ruth McKendry; great-
grandson of Archibald McKendry, Corporal and Drummer Mass.
Militia ; great2-grandson of John McKendry, private Mass. Militia ;
great-grandson of William Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Spare ; great2-
grandson of John Spare, Sergeant Mass. troops.
GEORGE SPENCER BLISS, Lynn, Mass. ( 14994)- Son of William
Bliss and Serena Maria Clapp ; grandson of William Bliss and
Esther Maria Cook; great-grandson of William Bliss and Martha
Parsons; great2-grandson of William Bliss, private Mass. troops,
also of Timothy Parsons, Corporal Mass. troops ; great-grandson of
Elijah Cooke and Esther Clapp ; great2-grandson of Joseph Cooke,
Captain, Porter's Hampshire County, Mass., Reg't.
SAMUEL MAY BOARDMAN, Hyde Park, Mass. (14963). Son of Wil-
liam Lewis Philbrook Boardman and Mary Goddard May; grand-
son of Benjamin Lewis Boardman and Susan Moses; great-grand-
son of Elias Boardman, Corporal Mass. troops ; grandson of Sam-
uel May and Mary Goddard; great-grandson of Joseph Goddard
and Mary Aspinwall ; great2-grandson of John Goddard, Conductor
of Store's Mass. Militia ; great-grandson of Samuel May and Abigail
Williams ; great2-grandson of Joseph Williams, Muster-Master Mass.
Militia, Member Provincial Council.
JOSHUA MERRILL BRAGG, Medford, Mass. (14964). Son of Wil-
liam Wilder Bragg, Jr., and Eleanor M. Grigg ; grandson of Will-
iam Bragg and Ann Hayden; great-grandson of Ebenezer Bragg
and Ann Hayden; great2-grandson of John Bragg, Sergeant Mass.
Continental troops.
CHARLES ORRIN BREED, Lynn, Mass. (14965.) Son of Richard
Breed and Eliza Ann Breed; grandson of Joseph Breed and Eliza
Walden; great-grandson of Ephraim Breed, private Fourth Com-
pany, Lynn, Mass., Militia.
LYMAN WARREN BROOKS, Cambridge, Mass. (14575). Son of
Eugene Denton Brooks and Sarah Whitney; grandson of Luke
Brooks and Merriam Foster ; great-grandson of Stephen Brooks and
Prudence Whitcomb; great2-grandson of John Whitcomb, Major-
General, Mass. Army, commissioned Brigadier Continental Army.
CLARENCE FULLER BOYDEN, Taunton, Mass. ( 14574). Son o*
Alexander Andreas Boyden and Harriet Goward Fuller; grandson
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2? 3
of Tisdale Fuller and Harriet Goward ; great-grandson of Barzil-
lal Fuller and Betsey Tisdale; great2-grandson of Isaac Fuller,
Third, First Lieutenant Sixteenth Mass. Continental Infantry.
CHARLES ALBERT BROWN, Lynn, Mass. (14966). Son of Ebenezer
Brown and Eliza Ireson ; grandson of Ezra Brown, private and
drummer Mass. Militia, also of Benjamin Ireson and Susanna Bur-
rill; great-grandson of Theophilus Burrill, private, Gerrish's Mass.
Reg't.
ALLEN BURDICK, Boston, Mass. (8685). (Correction of Register.)
Benjamin Chandler, Captain, not private.
GEORGE BURGESS BURNS, Boston, Mass. (15163). Son of Charles
Worthgreave Burns and Susan Augusta Burgess; grandson of
George Dyer Burgess and Hannah Temple; great-grandson of
Osmon Burgess and Experience Stafford; great2-grandson of Na-
thaniel Burgass, private, Mass. Militia, pensioned.
LYMAN CARPENTER, Attleboro, Mass. (15152). Son of Wheaton
A. Carpenter and Alice Briggs; grandson of Daniel Carpenter
and Alice Richardson, also of Wheaton Briggs and Sylda Hunt',
great-grandson of Daniel Carpenter (and Elizabeth Tyler), Corporal,
Mass. Militia ; great2-grandson of John Tyler, Captain Mass. Militia ;
great-grandson of Stephen Briggs, private, Williams' Mass. Reg't,
also of Enoch Hunt, Sergeant, Mass. Militia, also of Daniel Richard-
son, Lieutenant Mass. Militia.
WHEATON ALTON CARPENTER, Attleboro, Mass. (14984). Son of
Henry L. Carpenter and Hattie D. Walden ; grandson of Wheaton
A. Carpentep and Alice Briggs; great-grandson of Daniel Car-
penter and Alice Richardson ; great2-grandson of Daniel Carpenter,
Corporal Mass. Militia.
FREDERICK SYMON CATE, Wakefield, Mass. (14796). Son of John
March Cate and Phebe Hayes ; grandson of Horatio Neal Cate
and Sarah Ann March; great-grandson of Daniel Cate and Mary
Willey; great2-grandson of Neal Cate, private New Hampshire
troops.
CYRUS ALVIN CHADWELL, Lynn, Mass. ( 14995)- Son of Cyrus
Chadwell and Hannah Putnam; grandson of Harris Chadwell,.
Jr., and Polly Houghton ; great-grandson of Harris Chadwell, Lieu-
tenant Mass. troops, pensioned.
ORANDO W. CHARLES, Bryantville, Mass. (14983)- Son of Simeon
Charles and Rebekah Woodman; grandson of John Woodman and
Sarah Evans; great-grandson of Timothy Evans and Polly Gam-
mage; great2-grandson of Joshua Gammage, Corporal and drummer >
Mass. troops, pensioned.
SAMUEL AYER CHASE, Lowell, Mass. (15156). Son of Samuel
Chase and Sally Adams Gile ; grandson of David Gile and Sally
Ayer; great-grandson of Ezekiel Gile, Captain New Hampshire
troops, member New Hampshire Legislature.
JAMES HUMPHREYS CLAPP, Dorchester, Mass. ( 14797)- Son of
Lemuel Clapp and Charlotte Tuttle; grandson of William Clapp
and Elizabeth Humphreys ; great-grandson of Lemuel Clap, Captain
Mass. Militia.
GEORGE PEIRCE COOLEY, Cambridge, Mass. (14776). Son of Albert
Lloyd Cooley and Caroline Elizabeth Peirce ; grandson of Benjamin
Peirce and Almira Harrington ; great-grandson of Benjamin Peirce,
private Mass. Militia, also of Joel Harrington, private Mass. Militia.
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FRANK ETHRIDGE COTTON, Woburn, Mass. (9478). (Correction to
National Register.) Son of N. Franklin Cotton and Lydia Ann
Eth ridge, not Eldridge.
ALFRED ELMER COX, Maiden, Mass. (15 164). Son of Charles Cole
Cox and Lucy Faulkner; grandson of John Cox and Lydia Andrews ;
great-grandson of Unite Cox, Sergeant Thirty-seventh Mass. Foot.
EDWARD SHERMAN CROCKETT, Medford, Mass. (14985). Son of
Nathaniel Bennett Crockett and Lydia Jane Wardwell ; grandson
of Joseph H. Wardwell and Lydia Howard ; great-grandson of
Joseph Wardwell, Ensign First Mass. Line.
JESSE CUD WORTH, Maiden, Mass. (14951)- Son of Jesse Cudworth
and Jane H. Mackananie Watson; grandson of Jesse Cudworth
and Mary Gregory; great-grandson of Jesse Cudworth, private,
Hathaway's Mass. Reg't.
ELBRIDGE GERRY CUTLER, Boston, Mass. (14996). Son of John
Lewis Cutler and Abby Doty Belcher ; grandson of Nathan
Cutler and Hannah Moore ; great-grandson of Joseph Cutler, Cap-
tain Fourth Worcester County, Mass., Reg't.
HORACE STUART CUMMINGS, Washington, D. C. (14798). Son of
Jacob Cummings and Harriet Tewksbury; grandson of John
Tewksbury and Mary Cheever ; great-grandson of James Tezvks-
bury, private Mass. Militia.
DANIEL FREDERICK DAVIES, Boston, Mass. ( 14554). Son of
Charles Henry Davies and Mary Andrews Stevens ; grandson of
Daniel Davies and Amity B. Hastings ; great-grandson of Amasa
Davies and Lucy Hayward ; great2-grandson of Daniel Davies, Cap-
tain Third Middlesex County, Mass., Militia, also of Benjamin Hay-
ward, private, Brook's Mass. Reg't.
IRVING JACKSON DAVIS, Somerville, Mass. (14567). Son of Arte-
mus W. Davis and Maggie E. Towse ; grandson of Mark J. Davis
and Martha A. Parker ; great-grandson of Samuel H. Davis and
Betsy Thurston ; great2-grandson of John Davis, Drummer Mass.
Line, pensioned.
EDMUND D. DE WITT, Springfield, Mass. (14322). Son of Henry
Witt and Permelia Dickinson ; grandson of Joseph Witt, private
Mass. troops, pensioned.
HOLLIS B. DE WITT, Granby, Mass. (14323). Son of Benjamin De
Witt and Polly Eastman ; grandson of Joseph Witt, private Mass.
troops, pensioned.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DODGE, Chelsea, Mass. (15157). Son of
Benjamin Dodge and Rebecca Webb Howe ; grandson of Benjamin
Dodge and Abigail Lufkin ; great-grandson of Mial Dodge, private
Mass. Continental troops.
WALTER HOVEY DUGAN, Brookline, Mass. (14980). Son of Eben
White Dugan and Rebecca Mulliken Munroe; grandson of Otis
Munroe and Sophia Harrington; great-grandson of Levi (and
Rebecca Mulliken) Harrington, private and drummer Mass. Con-
tinental troops ; great2-grandson of Daniel (and Anna Munroe-)
Harrington, Clerk Lexington Company Minute Men, Lieutenant
Mass. Militia ; greaf-grandson of Robert Munroe, Ensign, Parker's
Company of Minute Men, killed at Lexington, April 19, 1775.
CHARLES HENRY EDSON, Whitman, Mass. (14777). Son of Henry
Edson and Mary Alice Stetson ; grandson of Jonah Edson and Jen-
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2?5
net Orr Bryant; great-grandson of Daniel Bryant and Jennet
Mitchell; great2-grandson of Cushing Mitchell and Jennet Orr;
great8-grandson of Edward Mitchell, Colonel Third Plymouth
County, Mass., Reg't.
JOHN WELCH EMERSON, Chelsea, Mass. (14568). Son of Otis Em-
erson and Martha Dix: grandson of Parker Emerson and Anna
Jones; great-grandson of Parker Emerson, Sergeant Mass. Contin-
ental troops.
DWIGHT WATTS ENSIGN, Cambridge, Mass. (14555). Son of Sey-
mour P. Ensign and Diantha Holmes; grandson of Otis Ensign,
private Conn, troops, pensioned.
FRANK P. FIELD, Whitman, Mass. (14778). Son of Waldo Field and
Ellen F. Hayden; grandson of Waldo Field and Sally Perkins;
great-grandson of Mark Perkins, Corporal Mass. Militia.
FRANCIS APTHROP FOSTER, Boston, Mass. (14967). Son of
Francis Charles Foster and Marion Padelford; grandson of Ed-
ward Padelford and Elizabeth Louisa Farnum ; great-grandson of
Philip (and Elizabeth Macomber) Padelford, Surgeon's Mate, Car-
peneter's Mass. Reg't ; great2-grandson of Elijah Macomber, private
and matross Mass. troops.
GEORGE LEE GOSS, Salem, Mass (15158). Son of Richard G. Goss
and Johannah T. Lovett; grandson of John Lovett and Charlott
Lee; great-grandson of Jeremiah Lovett, private Mass. Sea Coast
Guards.
HOWARD EARL GOWEN, Lynn, Mass. (14968). Son of Howard Lord
Gowen and Ella Maria Thurston; grandson of Samuel Gowen and
Sarah Ann Smith ; great-grandson of Samuel Gowen and Hannah
McCrillis ; great2-grandson of Ezekiel Gowen, private, Titcomb's
Mass. Reg't.
WILLIAM HENRY GREELEY, Abington, Mass. (14779). Son of
Moses Reuben Greeley and Sarah Robie Pierce; grandson of
Reuben Greeley and Joanna Colby Merrill ; great-grandson of
Moses Greeley and Mary Derby ; great2-grandson of Joseph Greeley,
Sergeant, Johnson's Mass. Regt, Lexington Alarm.
FREDERICK GRIFFIN, Methuen, Mass. (14556). Son of Frank E.
Griffin and Sarah F. Griffin; grandson of Justin E. Griffen and
Maria Meesser ; great-grandson of Asa Griffin and Betsy Flint ;
great2-grandson of Joseph Griffin, private, Gage's Mass. Reg't.
WALTER COREY GROVER, Cambridge, Mass. ( 14799). Son of Lucas
B. Grover and Hannah Skinner Corey; grandson of Leonard Corey
and Ada Skinner; great-grandson of James Skinner, private Mass.
Militia.
ALLSTON DYER GURNEY, Whitman, Mass. (14780). Son of David
Allston Gurney and Amelia Frances Dyer; grandson of David
Brainard Gurney and Cementha Blanchard ; great-grandson of
Davld Gurney and Anna Ellis; great2-grandson of Asa Gurney,
private Mass. Continental troops.
OSBORN BOYLSTON HALL, Maiden, Mass. (15165). Son of Jere
Fitch Hall and George Ann Kingsley; grandson of John Hall
. and Sarah Hills; great-grandson of Moses Hall, Sergeant Mass.
Militia.
FRANKLIN POWERS HARLOW, Whitman, Mass. (14781). Son of
Ebenezer Harlow and Permelia Powers; grandson of Ashael
Powers, private New Hampshire Continental troops.
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FRANCIS HAYDEN, Roxbury, Mass. (15159)- Son of William Hay-
den and Susan Kemball ; grandson of Henry Kemball and Eliza-
beth Wellington; great-grandson of Thomas Wellington, private
Mass. Militia, Lexington Alarm.
GEORGE WARREN HAYWARD, Neponset, Mass. ( 14997)- Son of
George Daniel Hayward and Lydia Farren Denton ; grandson of
Daniel Hayward and Sarah Hannah Clapp ; great-grandson of
Jonathan Hayward and Esther French Thayer ; great2-grandson of
Daniel Hayward, private Mass. Militia.
JONATHAN ELIPHAR HAYWARD, East Braintree, Mass. (14986).
Son of Jonathan Hayward and Esther French Thayer; grandson
of Daniel Hayward, private Mass. Militia.
EDWARD PHILLIPS HICKS, Boston, Mass. (15166). Son of Lewis
Wilder Hicks and Kate Curtis; grandson of Samuel Pres ott
Hicks and Abigail Phillips ; great-grandson of Elijah Hicks and
Nancy Leland ; great2-grandson of Samuel Leland, Corporal,
Wheelock's Reg't, Mass. Bay Militia ; great-grandson of Daniel
Phillips and Abigail Dresser; great2-grandson of Asa Dresser,
Corporal Mass. Militia; great3-grandson of John Dresser, Member
Committee of Correspondence; grandson of Jonathan S. Curtis
and Susan Brandt; great-grandson of Jonathan Curtis; great2-
grandson of Jonathan Curtis, Sergeant Mass. Continental troops.
LEWIS WILDER HICKS, Hartford, Conn. (15153)- Son of Samuel
Prescott Hicks and Abigail Phillips; grandson of Elijah Hicks
and Nancy Leland; great-grandson of Samuel Leland, Corporal
Mass. Bay Militia ; grandson of Daniel Phillips and Abigail Dress-
er; great-grandson of Asa Dresser, Corporal Mass. Militia; great2-
grandson of John Dresser, Member Committee of Correspondence.
WILLIAM M. HILL, Salem, Mass. (15 154). Son of Alexander A. Hill
and Ruth Millett; grandson of Robert Hill, Seaman on brigantine
"Ranger."
FRED ISAAC HOPKINS, Lynn, Mass. (15167). Son of Joshua Hop-
kins and Lydia Nickerson; grandson of John Hopkins and Ruth
Dyer Gross ; great-grandson of Benjamin Gross, private Mass. Con-
tinental Line, pensioned.
WILLIAM EVERETT HOUGHTON, East Saugus, Mass. (14970). Son
of George Houghton and Hannah Louise Houghton; grandson of
Samuel Houghton and Caroline Sawyer; great-grandson of Calvin
Sawyer, private Mass. Continental Troops.
CHANNING HOWARD, Winthrop, Mass. (14969). Son of Edwin
Dwelly Howard and Sarah Ann Hunt; grandson of Edwin How-
ard and Lucy Brett; great-grandson of Elijah Howard, Ensign,
Williams' Company, Mass. Militia, Member of Easton Committee
of Correspondence and Inspection.
ALLEN SHEPARD HOWLAND, Cambridge, Mass. (14952). Son of
William Otis Howland and Ella Gertrude Shepard; grandson of
Isaac F. Shepard and Deborah Nash Bates ; great-grandson of
William Bates and Deborah Nash ; great2-grandson of Elisha Bates,
private Heath's Detachment Mass. Guards at Dorchester Heights.
GERALD SHEPARD HOWLAND, Cambridge, Mass. ( 14953). Son
of William Otis Howland and Ella Gertrude Shepard; grandson
of Isaac F. Shepard and Deborah Nash Bates; great-grandson of
William Bates and Deborah L. Nash; great2-grandson of Elisha
Bates, private, Heath's Detachment Mass. Guards at Dorchester
Heights.
SHEPARD HOWLAND, Cambridge, Mass. ( 14557). Son of William
Otis Howland and Ella Gertrude Shepard ; grandson of Isaac F.
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Shepard and Deborah Nash Bates; great-grandson of William
Bates and Deborah Nash Bates; great2-grandson of Elisha Bates,
private Heath's Detachment Mass. Guards at Dorchester Heights.
HERBERT ELIPHALET HUIE, Springfield, Mass. (14782). Son of
William Sands Huie and Elizabeth Bryant Sturtevant; grandson
of Joseph Huie, Jr., and Elizabeth Sands ; great-grandson of Joseph
Huie and Margaret White ; great2-grandson of Robert Huie, private
New Jersey Continental Line ; great2-grandson of Nathaniel Sands
and Jane Weygant; great2-grandson of John Weygant (and Elizabeth
Smith), private Francis Smith's Company, Orange County, New
York Militia; great3-grandson of Francis Smith, Captain, Orange
County, New York, Militia ; grandson of Josiah Sturtevant and
Hannah Peabody; great-grandson of Calvin Peabody and Abigail
Fairbanks; great2-grandson of Thomas Peabody, private and Sur-
geon, Mass. Troops, also of Cyrus Fairbanks, First Lieutenant Mass.
Troops.
REUBEN HUNTING, Oak Park, 111. (14954). Son of Amos Hunting,
private Dedham Company, Mass. Continental Troops.
CHARLES GILMAN KEYES, Boston, Mass. (14987). Son of Ziba
Reyes and Lois Bruce; grandson of Thomas Keyes, private Mass.
Continental Line.
CHARLES FREDERICK KIDDER, Dorchester, Mass. (14988). Son of -
Joseph Tarbell Kidder and Pamela Locke; grandson of Joseph
Locke and Abigail Munroe; great-grandson of Edmund Munroe
(and Rebecca Harrington), Lieutenant, Bigelow's Mass. Reg't,
killed at Monmouth, 1778; great2-grandson of Jonathan Harrington,
private Mass. Troops.
CHARLES ELIOT LINCOLN, Boston, Mass. (14558). Son of George
B. Lincoln and Emma Hamlin Torrey; grandson of Rufus W.
Lincoln and Damietta D. Clapp ; great-grandson of Beza Lincoln,
private, Lovell's Mass. Reg't; grandson of Leavitt Torrey and
Mary Pratt; great-grandson of Samuel Torrey and Betsey Lane;
great2-grandson of Leavitt Lane, private Mass. Militia in Continental
service; great3-grandson of Josiah Lane, Second Lieutenant Mass.
*FREDERICK WALKER (not WILLIAM) LINCOLN, died September
14, 1898 (966). Son of Louis Lincoln and Mary Knight; grand-
son of Amos Lincoln, Captain Craft's Artillery Reg't.
[Correction of National Register.]
JOHN DAVIS LONG, Hingham, Mass. ( 14979). Son of Zadock Long
and Julia Temple Davis; grandson of Simon Davis, private Mass.
Continental Troops.
CALVIN LORD, Salem, Mass. (15303). Son of Joseph Henry Lord and
Elizabeth Russell Hathaway; grandson of Samuel Russell Hath-
away and Elizabeth Foxley; great-grandson of Eleazer Hathaway
and Lois Russell ; great3-grandson of Samuel Hooper Russell and
Nancy (P.) ; great3-grandson of John Roads {Russell), Captain
Fourteenth Mass. Reg't, added Russell to his name after marriage.
GEORGE PEASE LORD, Salem, Mass. (15302). Son of Joseph Henry
Lord and Elizabeth Russell Hathaway; grandson of Samuel Rus-
sell Hathaway and Elizabeth Foxley; great-grandson of Eleazer
Hathaway and Lois Russell; great2-grandson of Samuel Hooper
Russell and Nancy (P.) ; great3-grandson of John Roads (Russell),
Captain Fourteenth Mass. Reg't, added Russel to his name after
marriage.
ANDREW B. McGOWN, Worcester, Mass. (14089). Son of Joseph
McGown and Clementine E. Baxter; grandson of Ansel Baxter
and Octavia Basset ; great-grandson of Joseph Basset, private Mass.
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Continental Troops, pensioned ; great2-grandson of Daniel Basset,
Lieutenant Mass. Continental Troops.
JOSEPH E. McGOWN, Clinton, Mass. (15160). Son of Joseph Mc-
Gown and Clementine E. Baxter; grandson of Ansel Baxter and
Octavia Basset; great-grandson of Joseph Basset, private Mass.
Continental Troops, pensioned; great2-grandson of Daniel Basset,
Lieutenant Mass. Continental Troops.
CHARLES WESTON McINTOSH, Somerville, Mass. (14783). Son of
William A. McIntosh and Adelaide Dennett; grandson of Na-
thaniel Dennett and Susan Morris ; great-grandson of Nathaniel
Dennett and Catherine Tarleton ; great2-grandson of Nathaniel
Dennett and Mary Rogers; great3-grandson of John Dennett, Cap,
tain Second New Hampshire Reg't.
RICHARDS BRYANT MACKINTOSH, Peabody, Mass. (8936). (Sup-
plemental.) Son of Charles Gideon Mackintosh and Harriet
Ann Richards; grandson of Gideon Mackintosh and Nancy Sher-
man; great-grandson of Gidean Mackintosh (and Mehitable Dew-
ing), Corporal Mass. Troops; grandson of Martin Richards and
Harriet Angier; great-grandson of Luther Angier and Anna
Mixer ; great2-grandson of Joseph Mixer, Ensign Mass. Troops, also
of Henry Dewing, private, Davis'' Mass Reg't.
AUGUSTUS POPE MARRETT, Cambridge, Mass. (14784). Son of
Dane Appleton Marp.ett and Eliza Ann Locke; grandson of Dan-
iel Marrett and Dorcas Hastings ; great-grandson of Amos Mar-
rett, private Mass. Militia ; also of Samuel Hastings, private, Little's
Twelfth Mass. Reg't.
*DANE APPLETON MARRETT, Cambridge, Mass. (14785). Died Aug.
16, 1902. Son of Daniel Marrett and Dorcas Hastings; grandson
of Amos Marrett, private Mass. Militia, and of Samuel Hastings,
private Little's Twelfth Mass. Reg't.
HAROLD HASKINS MARTIN, Boston, Mass. ( 14559)- Son of Isaac
Bullock Martin and Almira Helen Mar Haskins ; grandson of
William Haskins and Nancy Evans Pillsbury; great-grandson of
Samuel Pillsbury and Nancy Evans; great2-grandson of Edward
Evans, Adjutant New Hampshire Militia and Line.
FRANK L. MELLEN, Worcester, Mass. (15 168). Son of Henry L.
Mellen and Maria L. Merrick ; grandson of Jeremiah Mellen and
Polly Hastings; great-grandson of Moses Hastings, private Mass.
Militia.
HENRY JAMES MILLS, East Saugus, Mass. (14971)- Son of Thomas
C. Mills and Martha A. Carter; grandson of Nathaniel Carter
and Elizabeth Robertson; great-grandson of John Carter, private
New Hampshire Continental Troops ; great2-grandson of Daniel
Carter, private Stickney's New Hampshire Reg't.
PAUL BEAGARY MORGAN, Worcester, Mass. ( 14955). Son of
Charles Hill Morgan and Rebecca Ann Beagary; grandson of
Hiram Morgan and Clarissa Rich; great-grandson of Calvin Mor-
gan and Polly Forbush ; great2-grandson of Aaron Morgan, Sergeant
Mass. Continental Troops ; great3-grandson of Joseph Morgan,
Sergeant Pynchon's Mass. Reg't.
CHARLES WILLIAM MORSE, Brookline, Mass. (14786). Son of
William Aldrich Morse and Susan Ellen Hall ; grandson of Sam-
uel Hall and Sophia King ; great-grandson of Samuel Hall, private
Mass. Troops ; great2-grandson of Josiah Hall, recognized patriot of
Newton, Mass., also of John King and Lois Jackson; great-grand-
son of John King, private Mass. Troops.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 279
GEORGE WASHINGTON MORSE, Boston, Mass. (14972). Son of
Stephen Morse and Susanna Brown; grandson of Daniel Brown,
private, Cargill's Mass. Reg't.
TENNEY MORSE, Maiden, Mass. (15169). Son of Rufus Webster
Morse and Mary Celia Tenney; grandson of Eliphalet Tenney
and Mary Emery; great-grandson of Levi Emery and Sally Foster;
great2-grandson of John Emery, Corporal Whitney's Mass. Reg't.
GRIDLEY THAXTER NASH, Abington, Mass. (14787). Son of Micah
Nash and Sarah Thaxter; grandson of Gridley Thaxter and
Sarah Lincoln; great-grandson of Benjamin Lincoln, Major-Gen-
eral Continental Army, prisoner of war 1780, Secretary War 1781-83.
CHARLES LYMAN NEWHALL, Southbridge, Mass. (746). Supple-
mental). Son of Otis Newhall and Sarah Dana Lamb; grandson
of Charles Lamb and Lucy Hooker; great-grandson of Samuel
Lamb, Corporal Mass. Line, and of Samuel Hooker, private Mass.
Militia; grandson of Reuben Newhall and Sarah Bemis; great-
grandson of Allen Newhall and Rebekah Bemis ; great2-grandson
of Samuel Bemis, private Mass. Militia.
CHARLES NUTT, Worcester, Mass. (14569). Son of William Nutt
and Abigail Prentice Puffer ; grandson of Isaac Brewster Nutt and
Sally Munroe; great-grandson of William Nutt (and Mary Brew-
ster), private New Hampshire Continental Troops; grandson
of Josiah Puffer and Patience Russell ; great-grandson of John
Puffer and Ruth Willis ; great2-grandson of Samuel Puffer, Sergeant
Mass. Troop_s ; great-grandson of Nathaniel Prentice Russell, private
Mass. Continental Troops.
CHARLES FREDERICK PAINE, Cambridge, Mass. (14560). Son of
David Paine and Charlotte Augusta Stone; grandson of John
Knowles Paine and Jane Small ; great-grandson of Daniel Small,
Sergeant-Major Mass. Militia.
WILLIAM LINCOLN PALMER, Cambridge, Mass. (14570). Son of
James Monroe Palmer and Caroline F. Bacon; grandson of Jona-
than Palmer and Martha Prescott; great-grandson of Trueworthy
Palmer, private New Hampshire Troops, also of Jonathan Pres-
cott; great2-grandson of Jonathan Prescott, private New Hamp-
shire Militia.
AARON HALL PARKER, Brookline, Mass. (14090). Son of Benjamin
Parker and Catharine Hall; grandson of Zachariah Hall and
Catharine Emerson ; great-grandson of Stephen Hall, IV, First Lieu-
tenant First Middlesex County, Mass., Militia ; great2-grandson of
Stephen Hall, III, Meember Mass. Provincial Congress.
AUSTIN HALL PARKER, Brookline, Mass. (14991). Son of Aaron
Hall Parker and Edith Morton Kurtz; grandson of Benjamin
Parker and Catherine Hall ; great-grandson of Zachariah Hall
and Catherine Emerson ; great2-grandson of Stephen Hall, IV, First
Lieutenant First Middlesex County, Mass., Militia; great3-grandson
of Stephen Hall, III, Member Mass. Provincial Congress.
WILLIAM EDWIN PARSONS, Brookline, Mass. (14998). Son of
John Parsons and Sarah Ayer Chase; grandson of Samuel Chase
and Sally Adams Gile; great-grandson of David Gile and Sally
Ayer; great2-grandson of 'Ezekiel Gile, Captain New Hampshire
Continental Troops, Member New Hampshire Legislature.
EDWARD ALLEN PEASE, Boston, Mass. ( 14973)- Son of Theodore
D. Pease and Julia Terry Allen; grandson of Dennis Pease and
Eliza Cody; great-grandson of Ely Pease and Cynthia Bugbee;
great2-grandson of Ely Pease, private Eighth Conn. Reg't ; grandson
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of Normand x\llen and Mary Robinson ; great-grandson of George
Allen and Betsey Rich; great2-grandson of Moses Allen, private
Second Conn. Line.
FRANK ENSIGN PEIRSON, Pittsfield, Mass. (14992). Son of Henry
Mulford Peirson and Electa M. Dresser; grandson of Josiah
Peirson and Nabby Rossiter; great-grandson of Henry Peirson
and Phebe Mulford; great2-grandson of David Mulford, Muster-
Master, Colonel Suffolk County, New York, Militia; great-grandson
of Abraham Rossiter and Polly Baldwin; great2-grandson of
Elnathan Rossiter, Captain Sixth Conn. Reg't; grandson of Otis
Dresser and Fannie F. Munson; great-grandson of Edward Mun-
son and Anna Griswold ; great2-grandson of Ezekiel Griswold,
private Berkshire County, Mass., Militia.
HENRY SPALDING PERHAM, Chelmsford, Mass. (14561). Son of
David Perham and Elutheria Wait; grandson of David Perham
and Rebecca Spalding; great-grandson of Samuel Perham, Jr., pri-
vate Mass. Militia; great2-grandson of Samuel Perham, Delegate
Mass. Provincial Convention at Concord; great-grandson of Henry
Spalding, private Mass. Militia.
CHARLES HENRY POOLE, Whitman, Mass. (14981). Son of Will-
iam Dexter Poole and Sarah Lewis Reed; grandson of Noah
Poole and _ Sally Piatt ; great-grandson of Jacob Poole, Captain
Mass. Continental Troops.
DAVID VINING POOLE, Abington, Mass. (14788). Son of Lorenzo
Poole and Sarah Jackson Vining; grandson of David Vining and
Lucy Eldridge White; great-grandson of Jonathan White and
Polly Loud ; great2-grandson of Benjamin White, private and drum-
mer Mass. Troops.
CLARENCE DERWOOD REED, Whitman, Mass. (14789). Son of
James Thaxter Reed and Mary Ann Severance; grandson of
Isaac Reed and Sally Stetson; great-grandson of Hezekiah Reed,
private, Edward Mitchell's Mass. Reg't.
THOMAS REED, Cambridgeport, Mass. (14790). Son of George B.
Reed and Clara B. Reed; grandson of Thomas Reed and Mary L.
W. Reed; great-grandson of Thomas Reed and Patty Hutchins ;
great2-grandson of Hezekiah Hutchins, private and Captain New
Hampshire Troops.
LOUIS VALENTINE ROBBINS, New York, N. Y. ( 14993)- Son of
Marshall Robbins and Fanny Valentine ; grandson of Louis S.
Robbins and Selma Augusta Bryant; great-grandson of Samuel
Robbins and Lovinia Patrick; grear-grandson of Stephen Robbins,
Jr., private Mass. Troops ; great3-grandson of Stephen Robbins,
private, Gridley's Company at West Cambridge ; great4-grandson of
Thomas Robbins, Sergeant Mass. Troops.
CHARLES GREEN ROBERTS, Chelsea, Mass. (15161). Son of An-
drew Conant Roberts and Pamelia Jones Hill; grandson of John
Roberts and Hannah Chadbourn; great-grandson of Simeon Chad-
bourn, Corporal Thirtieth Mass. Reg't.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS ROBINSON, Maiden, Mass. (14956). Son
of Egbert Raymond Robinson and Phebe Kilton Dary ; grandson of
Otis Robinson and Sarah Dean Raymond; great-grandson of Obed
Robinson and Abigail Richards ; great2-grandson of Enoch Robinson,
First Lieutenant, Walker's Mass. Reg't.
RO SWELL RAYMOND ROBINSON, Maiden, Mass. (14324). Son of
Egbert Raymond Robinson and Phebe Kilton Dary; grandson of
Otis Robinson and Sarah Dean Raymond; great-grandson of Obed
Robinson and Abigail Richards ; great2-grandson of Enoch Robinson.
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Captafn Mass. Militia, Dary great-grandson pedigree of John Davy,
private Francis' Mass. Reg't.
WILLIAM LYMAN ROBINSON, Worcester, Mass. (15170). Son of
George Clark Robinson and Susan Freeman ; grandson of Stephen
Freeman and Esther French ; great-grandson of Bartholomew
French, private, Dike's Mass. Reg't.
ALFRED SEELYE ROE, Worcester, Mass. (822). Son of Austin M.
Roe and Polly Seelye; grandson of Austin Roe and Sally Roe;
great-grandson of Daniel Roe, Captain (not private) Second New
York Reg't.
[Correction for National Register.]
WALTER WHEELER ROWSE, Lexington, Mass. (14791)". Son of
Richard Rowse and Sarah Maria Wheeler; grandson of Samuel
Cook Wheeler and Abigail Wilson; great-grandson of Supply Wil-
son, Corporal, Reed's New Hampshire Reg't.
HENRY STODDARD RUGGLES, Wakefield, Mass. (889). (Supple-
mental.) Son of Henry Bond Ruggles and Mary Goodwin Ross;
grandson of John Ruggles and Eunice Kingsley ; great-grandson of
Samuel Ruggles, private, Waterbury's Conn. Reg't; grandson of
Jonathan Ross ancTMary Goodwin ; great-grandson of John Good-
win, Lieutenant York County, Mass., Militia, also of Phineas Kings-
ley, private, Ebenezer Allen's Reg't, Vermont Militia.
WILLIAM BAUMAN SAULPAUGH, Boston, Mass. (15171). Son of
John Jay Saulpaugh and Ann E. Saulpaugh; grandson of Azar-
iah Saulpaugh and Anna Christina Doll ; great-grandson of Will-
iam H. Doll and Sophia Christina Baum ; great2-grandson of Sebas-
tian Bauman, Captain First New York Volunteers, Major and Col-
onel Continental Artillery.
FRANK R. SEARLES, Springfield, Mass. (14325). Son of Arthur C.
Searles and Alice L. Martin; grandson of Rufus A. Searles and
Aminda L. Betts ; great-grandson of Charles G. Betts and Clarissa
Brown; great2-grandson of Reuben Betts, private Conn. Militia, pen-
sioned.
FRED ELDREDGE SHARP, Whitman, Mass. (14792). Son of Gib-
bius Sharp and Mary Frances Sproul; grandson of Gibbius Sharp
and Sophronia Gurney; great-grandson of Gibbius Sharp and Ruth
Pratt; great2-grandson of Gibbins {Gib eon) Sharp, private Mass.
Continental Troops.
HERBERT ELIJAH SHAW, Wales, Mass. ( 14957). Son of Elijah
Shaw and Jane M. Weaver; grandson of Thomas J. Weaver and
Mary Green Nichols; great-grandson of Pearly Nichols and Patty
Green ; great2-grandson of Malachi Nichols, private Mass. Militia.
JOSIAH BRYANT SHURTLEFF, Jr., Revere, Mass. (14562). Son of
Josiah Bryant Shurtleff and Mary Jane Hall ; grandson of Ben-
jamin Shurtleff iand Cynthia Bryant; great-grandson of Ben-
jamin Shurtleff and Sally Shaw ; great2-grandson of Benjamin
Shurtleff, private, Warren's and Lothrop's Mass. Reg'ts.
HARRY D. SISSON, Pittsfield, M<ass. (14551). Son of Henry D. Sis-
son and Emily P. Spaulding; grandson of Chester Spaulding and
Emily Button ; great-grandson of Zebulon Spaulding, private Mass.
Continental Troops.
JOSEPH MATHER SMITH, West Springfield, Mass. (15162). Son of
Joseph A. Smith and Frances O. Mather; grandson of Horace
Smith and Grala Bagg; great-grandson of Oliver Bagg, Corporal
Mass. Militia.
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FRANCIS FORRISTALL SNOW, Maiden, Mass. (14974). Son of
Francis Wayland Snow and Hannah Elizabeth Forristall; grand-
son of Ezra Forristall and Betsey Starkey; great-grandson of
Joseph Forristall, Corporal Mass. Militia.
GEORGE HENRY SNOW, Maiden, Mass. (14975). Son of Francis
Wayland Snow and Hannah Elizabeth Forristall ; grandson of Ezra
Forristall and Betsey Starkey; great-grandson of Joseph Forristall,
Corporal Mass. Militia.
HENRY ADAMS SPEAR, Everett, Mass. (15155). Son of Lyman
Spear and Almerine Kingsbury ; grandson of Joseph Spear and Eliz-
abeth Adams ; great-grandson of William Spear, private New Hamp-
shire Volunteers, also of Ephraim Adams, Jr., private New Hamp-
shire Continental Troops; great2-grandson of Ephriam Adams.
private, Hale's New Hampshire Reg't.
HARRY CHARLES SPILLER, Chelsea, Mass. (14552). Son of Charles
William Spiller and Christie Ann McLean ; grandson of William
Spiller and Martha Curtis ; great-grandson of Henry Spiller, Jr.,
private Mass. Troops ; great2-grandson of Henry Spiller, Sr., Minute
Man in Ipswich, Mass., Company at Lexington Alarm.
CHARLES PRATT STOCKWELL, Salem, Mass. (14563). (Adopted by
Enoch J. Stockwell and Catherine M. Pratt, and name legally
changed.) Son of Theodore Wood and Lucy E. Pratt; grandson of
Emmons Pratt and Priscilla Sears; great-grandson of Jesse Pratt,
private Proctor's Detachment, Mass. Guards; great2-grandson of
Josiah Pratt, Captain Gill's Mass. Reg't, pensioned ; great-grandson
of Paul Sears, Corporal, Ashley's Berkshire County, Mass., Reg't.
ROBERT THAXTER (not THATCHER) SWAN, Brookline, Mass.
(5028).
[Correction for National Register.]
CHARLES OSCAR SWEET, Attleboro, Mass. (14319). Supple-
mental.) Son of Joabert Sweet and Eliza Nelson; grandson of
Amor Sweet and Sally Sweet; great-grandson of Thomas Sweet
(father of Sally), Sergeant, Daggett's Mass. Reg't ; grandson of
James Nelson and Betsy Bourne ; great-grandson of Stephen
Bourne, Lieutenant, Carpenter's Mass. Reg't.
JAMES FRANKLIN THAYER, Chelsea, Mass. (14564). Son of An-
drew Jackson Thayer and Susan Augusta Tobey; grandson of
Ellis Thayer and Lois Swan ; great-grandson of Jeremiah Thayer,
private, Doolittle's Reg't Mass. Minute Men.
LEON H. THOMPSON, Wales, Mass. ( 14793). Son of Charles F.
Thompson and Dianna R. Coburn ; grandson of Alonzo Coburn
and Lucy D. Needham ; great-grandson of Danford Needham and
Alice Thompson ; great2-grandson of William Thompson, private
Worcester County, Mass., Militia, also of Stephen Needham, private
Hampshire County, Mass., Militia.
CHARLES THOMAS UPTON, Lowell, Mass. (15172). Son of Joseph
Snow Upton and Myra Ann Wilson Johnson; grandson of Isaiah
H. Johnson and Elmira Little Wilson; great-grandson of Jona-
than Wilson and Rebeckah Wyatt; great2-grandson of Daniel
WyaU, private, Stark's Brigade, New Hampshire Militia.
FRANK CLIFFORD WALKER, Taunton, Mass. (14976). Son of Ed-
sell H. Walker and Huldah Wilbur; grandson of Amos Wilbur
and Huldah Palmer; great-grandson of Amos Wilbur and Fidely
Woodward; great2-grandson of David Woodward, private Mass.
Militia.
THOMAS BEALE WALES, Jr., Wellesley Hills, Mass. (4001). (Supple-
mental). Son of Thomas B. Wales and Ann Kimball; grandson of
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Thomas B. Wales and Maria Howe ; great-grandson of Thomas
B. Wales and Ann Beale; great2-grandson of Ephriam Wales,
private Mass. Minute Men, Member of Braintree Committee of
Safety.
CHARLES REUBEN WALTON, Brighton, Mass. (14958). Son of Reu-
ben Walton and Mirandy Piper; grandson of Benjamin Walton,
private Mass. Continental Troops, pensioned ; great-grandson of
Reuben Walton, private, Hale's New Hampshire Reg't.
WINSLOW WARREN, Dedham, Mass. (14977). Son of Winslow
Warren and Margaret Bartlett; grandson of Henry Warren and
Mary Winslow; great-grandson of James Warren, Paymaster-Gen-
eral Continental Army, President Mass. Provincial Congress.
SAMUEL GILBERT WEBBER, West Newton, Mass. (15173)- Son of
Aaron Dalton Webber and Maria Gilbert Stevens ; grandson of
Bartholomezv Stevens, private First New Hampshire Line.
HENRY ESTABROOK WHITCOMB, Worcester, Mass. (15175). Son
of George Henry Whitcomb and Abbie Milly Estabrook; grand-
son of David Whitcomb and Margaret Cummings; great-grand-
son of Asahel Cummings and Polly Ames; great2-grandson of John
Cummings, Jr., Ensign Prescott's Mass. Reg't; great3-grandson of
John Cummings, Second Lieutenant Mass .and New Hampshire
Troops.
HARRIS STEWART WHITTEMORE, Cambridge, Mass. (15174)- Son
of William Richardson Whittemore and Isabella Stewart ; grand-
son of George Washington Whittemore and Synia Higgins Rich-
ardson; great2-grandson of William Whittemore and Abigail Cart-
eret ; great3-grandson of Samuel Whittemore, recognized patriot,
Member of Cambridge, Mass., Committees, wounded during British
retreat from Lexington ; grandson of Alonzo Stewart and Isabella
Ireland; great-grandson of James Stewart and Abigail Smith;
great2-grandson of Abraham Stewart (and Sarah McKechnie),
private. Mass. Militia ; great3-grandson of John McKechnie, Surgeon
in Arnold's Army at Fort Halifax, 1776; great-grandson of Joseph
Ireland, great2-grandson of John Ireland; great3-grandson of Abra-
ham Ireland, private Prescott's Mass., Reg't.
SAMUEL HERBERT WILKINS, Salem, Mass. (15304). Son of Al-
bert Wilkins and Mary A. Hopkins; grandson of Hezekiah
Wilkins and Bethiah Shehane ; great-grandson of Reuben Wilkins,
private, Mansfield's Mass. Reg't.
WILLIAM G. WILLIAMS, Maiden, Mass. (15301). Son of Daniel
Williams and Olive S. Cole; grandson of Thomas Williams and
Abigail Boston: great-grandson of Samuel Williams, private Scam-
mon's Mass. Reg't, also of William Boston, Corporal York County,
Mass., Militia.
LEON EUGENE WILSON, Lynn, Mass. (1*4794). Son of Eugene A.
Wilson and Faustina Chadwell ; grandson of Cyrus Chadwell and
Hannah Putnam ; great-grandson of Harris Chadwell and Polly
Houghton ; great2-grandson of Harris Chadwell, Lieutenant, Heath's
Mass. Regt.
HOWARD PARKER WISE, Maiden, Mass. (14565). Son of Daniel
Parker Wise and Grace Nichols ; grandson of James Warren
Bates and Anna Tower ; great-grandson of Samuel Bates and Jo-
anna Nichols; great2-grandson of Nathaniel Nichols, Lieutenant,
Heath's Mass. Reg't.
HENRY ERNEST WOODS, Boston, Mass. (14978). Son of Henry
Thayer Wood and Ellen Thayer; grand son 1 of Henry Woods and
Hannah Maria Thayer; great-grandson of, Samson Woods and
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Alice Tarbell ; great2-grandson of Henry Woods, Lieutentnt-Colonel,
Wade's Mass. Reg't, Member of Mass. General Court.
FRANK V. WRIGHT, Salem, Mass. (5006). (Supplemental.) Son of
William A. Wright and Frances Sophia Huntington ; grandson of
William Wright and Sarah Bennett; great-grandson of Davii
Wgight and Polly Lowell; great2-grandson of David Wright,
private Mass. Continental Troops; grandson of Benjamin Hunt-
ington and Caroline Dolliver; great-grandson of Peter Dolliver,
Captain Sixteenth Mass. Reg't.
MICHIGAN SOCIETY.
HARRY C. ANGELL, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14869). Son of Craw-
ford Angell and Almira E. Bliss ; grandson of Daniel Angell and
Sally Kelton; great-grandson of Joshua Angel and Olive West;
great2-grandson of Abraham Angell, private North Providence,
Rhode Island, Rangers.
ALMON B. ATWATER, Detroit, Mich. (14160). Son of John T. At-
water and Matilda E. Hill ; grandson of Chauncey Atwater and
Johanna Judd ; great-grandson of Abel Atwater and Elizabeth
Peck; great2-grandson of Samuel Atwater, drummer Fifth Battalion
Wadsworth's Conn. Brigade.
ENOCH BANCKER, Jackson, Mich. (12879). Son of Floris V. (not
W.) T. Bancker and Maria C. Hollister; grandson of William
Bancker and Sinea (not Linea) Ryan; great-grandson of Floris
Bancker, Second Major Sixth Albany County, New York, Militia.
[Correction of National Register.)
GEORGE WILLIAMS (not WILLIAM) BATES, Detroit, Mich. (3061).
[Correction of National Register.]
BENSON BIDWELL, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14174)- Son of Austin
Burnham Bidwell and Laura Butterfield; grandson of Moses Bid-
well and Lucy Bidwell; great-grandson of Zebulon Bidwell, Cap-
tain Conn. Troops, died in service at Stillwater, 1777.
GEORGE W. BISSELL, Detroit, Mich. (14859)- Son of Elijah North
Bissell and Florilla Loomis; grandson of Elijah Bissell and
Rachel Cook Soper; great-grandson of Benjamin Bissell, Sergeant
Conn. Troops, pensioned, also of David Soper (and Rachel Cook),
private Conn. Light Horse and Militia; great2-grandson of Dea. J.
John Cook, Member Conn. Legislature.
GEORGE GARFIELD BOGUE, Detroit, Mich. (14169). Son of Bishop
Bogue and S. Cordelia Garfield; grandson of Nathaniel Garfield
and Charlotte Harwood ; great-grandson of Nathaniel Garfield, pri-
vate Mass. Continental Troops.
FREDERICK PHELPHS BROWNE, Bay City, Mich. (14865). Son of
Daniel E. Browne and Harriet Jones Lewis; grandson of Ozias
Lewis and Mary Jones; great-grandson of Isaac Jones and Sybil
Benjamin; great2-grandson of John Benjamin, Captain Fourth Conn.
Militia.
HAMILTON CARHARTT (not CARHART), Detroit, Mich. (11960).
Son of George Washington Carhartt and Lefa Wylie; grandson
of William Wylie and Demarias Dalrymple; great-grandson of
David Dalrymple, private Mass. troops, pensioned. {Correction of
National Register).
EDWIN TERRY CARRINGTON, West Bay City, Mich. (14858). Son
of Edward Carrington and Sarah Ann Terry; grandson of Jessee
Carrington and Hannah Dennison ; great-grandson of Abraham
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 285
Carrington, Commanded Conn. Guards at Milford, Conn., 1781 ;
grandson of Eliphalet Terry and Sarah Watson; great-grandson of
Eliphalet Terry, Captain of Enfield, Conn., Militia.
EDWARD W. CRESSEY, Bay City, Mich. (14866). Son of Edward
Potter Cressey and Caroline Frances Brooks; grandson of Na-
thaniel Wilson Brooks and Caroline Frances Jeffords; great-
grandson of John Jeffords and Sarah Elliott Leavenworth; great2-
grandson of Eli Leavensworth, Major Sixth Conn. Line.
A. J. DANIELS, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14857). Son of James Daniels
and Laura Bailey; grandson of Enoch Bailey (Bayley), Bombardier
Craft's Mass. Artillery.
HARRISON E. FAIRCHILD, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14851). Son of
Henry Brant Fairchild and Helen Louise Emery; grandson of
Harrison Stiles Fairchild and Electra Jane Williams; great-
grandson of Philo Fairchild and Nancy Dutton Stiles; great2-
grandson of Joseph Stiles and Nancy Dutton ; great3-grandson of
Jeremiah Stiles, Captain New Hampshire Militia.
HENRY B. FAIRCHILD, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14175). Son of Har-
rison Stiles Fairchild and Electra Jane Williams; grandson of
Philo Fairchild and Nancy Dutton Stiles; great-grandson of Jo-
seph Stiles and Nancy Dutton ; great2-grandson of Jeremiah Stiles,
Captain New Hampshire Militia.
WARREN WASHBURN FLORER, Ann Arbor, Mich. (14856). Son of
William Jefferson Florer and Mary Ann Louise Washburn;
grandson of Alexander Bruce Florer and American Ann Her-
bert; great-grandson of Charles Herbert and Elizabeth Marquis;
great2-grandson of Josiah Herbert, private and drummer Virginia
Troops, pensioned.
WILLIAMS (not WILLIAM) COOPER HARRIS, Detroit, Mich.
(9588.) [Correction of National Register.]
GEORGE STEDMAN HOSMER, Detroit, Mich. (14173)- Son of John
Hosmer and Lucy Jane Buttrick; grandson of Stedman Buttrick
and Lucy H. Hunt; great-grandson of Jonas Buttrick and Lucy
Hudson; great2-grandson of John Buttrick, Major in command of the
"militia companies which made the first attack upon the British
Troops at Concord North Bridge on the 19th of April, 1775."
LOYAL (not ROYAL) EDWIN KNAPPER, Grand Rapids, Mich.
(10180). [Correction of National Register.]
RUSS STOWELL JENKS, St. Clair, Mich. (14161). Son of Bela
Whipple Jenks and Sarah Carleton ; grandson of Jeremiah Whip-
ple Jenks and Hester Lane; great-grandson of Jeremiah Jenks,
Lieutenant New Hampshire Militia, also of Jesse Lane, Member
of Newport Committee of Safety.
RILEY LORING JONES, Saginaw, Mich. (14863). Son of Henry
Davis Jones and Maria B. Nye; grandson of Ellis S. Nye and
Martha Williams; great-grandson of Abraham Williams, Captain
Mass. Continental Troops.
CHARLES EDWARD LOCKE, Detroit Mich. (14854). Son of Charles
Henry Locke and Avis Coggeshall Fiske; grandson of Ira Locke
and Harriet Roberts; great-grandson of Josiah Locke, Captain
Worcester County, Mass., Militia.
FRANCIS C. McMATH, Detroit, Mich. (14168). Son of Robert E.
McMath and Frances E. Brodie; grandson of Alla McMath and
Elizabeth Homan; great-grandson of Joshua Homan, Matross,
Crane's Mass. Artillery Reg't.
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ARTHUR AUGUSTUS MEEKER, Croswell, Mich. (14855). Son of
Henry Augustus Meeker and Ellen Louise Bush; grandson of
Conrad Bush and Sophronia Reed; great-grandson of Conradt
Busch, Corporal New York Militia, Matross, Lamb's Continental
Artillery, pensioned.
OLEN W. MULKEY, Detroit, Mich. (14172). Son of William Fletcher
Mulkey and Minerva A. Thompson; grandson of John Milton
Mulkey and Matilda V. Scantlin; great-grandson of Phillip Mul-
key and Ruth Mulkey ; great2-grandson of Jonathan Mulkey ;
great8-grandson of Phillip Mulkey, chaplain and private of North
Carolina Militia.
GEORGE HUTCHINSON PAINE, Detroit, Mich. (14862). Son of Asa
Hammond Paine and Jane Worden Hutchinson; grandson of John
Hutchinson and Lorena Worden; great-grandson of Jerome
Hutchinson and Content Smith ; great2-grandson of John Hutch-
inson, private New Hampshire Militia and Line.
CLARENCE ARVIN (not N.) PALMER, Pontiac, Mich. (14163). [Cor-
rection of National Register.]
WILLIAM HAYES ROSE, Detroit, Mich. (14864). Son of John Rose
and Sarah A. Davies ; grandson of Thomas R. Davies and Asenath
Woodburn; great-grandson of Moses Woodburn, private Conn.
Militia, Mariner Conn. Navy, pensioned.
ROYDEN ALBERT KEITH ROTHERMEL, Kalamazoo, Mich. (14852).
Son of Albert Hadley Rothermel and Alma Staley; grandson of
Daniel Rothermel and Elizabeth Hoffman ; great-grandson of
Abraham Rothermel and Marie Emma Hunter Yeager; great2-
grandson of Daniel Hunter, Colonel Berks County, Penna., Militia.
GUY W. ROUSE, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14861). Son of William H.
Rouse and Mary E. Rouse; grandson of Samuel A. Winchester
and Rebecca Winchester; great-grandson of Samuel A. Winchester
and Chloe Boynton; great2-grandson of Jonathan Winchester, private
Mass. Militia, also of David Boynton, private Stickney's New Hamp-
shire Reg't.
RALPH H. SPENCER, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14868). Son of Douglas
Spencer and Catherine Heath ; grandson of Ezra Heath and Naoma
Nichols; great-grandson of William Heath, private Conn. Militia,
pensioned, also of William Nichols and Roxana Heath ; great2-
grandson of Aaron Heath (father of Roxana), private Mass.
Militia.
WILLIAM H. STRONG, Detroit, Mich. (14867). Son of Charles
Cyprian Strong and Julia Talcott; grandson of Ansel Talcott
and Emily Riley; great-grandson of Abraham Talcott, private Wal-
cott's Reg't Conn. Militia, pensioned.
FREDERICK TOWLE, Detroit, Mich. (14171). Son of Simon Towle
and Harriet Hunt; grandson of Henry Towle and Susan Pierce;
great-grandson of Simon Tozvle, private New Hampshire troops, also
of James (and Mary Underbill) Pierce, private, Nichols' New
Hampshire Reg't; great2-grandson of John Underhill, Sergeant,
Stickney's New Hampshire Reg't; grandson of Caleb Hunt and
Rebecca Poole ; great-grandson of Henry Hunt, private New Hamp-
shire troops, also of Jonathan (and Elizabeth Hale) Poole, Surgeon's
Mate First New Hampshire Reg't; great2-grandson of John Hale,
Surgeon's First New Hampshire Reg't.
CHARLES WELLINGTON TUFTS, Detroit, Mich. (14170). Son of
George A. Tufts and Sarah Pettyes; grandson of Varnum Pettyes
and Phebe Jones ; great-grandson of Isaac Jones and Naomi White-
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head; great'-grandson of John Jones, private Essex County, New
Jersey, Militia ; grandson of Peter Tufts and Susan Russell ;
great-grandson of Thomas Russell and Margaret Adams; great2-
grandson of William Adams, Captain Thatcher's Mass. Reg't; great-
grandson of Peter Tufts and Martha Locke; great'-grandson of
Samuel Locke, Jr., private, Mcintosh's Mass. Reg't, also of Peter
Tufts, private Mass .Minute Men and Militia.
WILLIAM C. WALLIN, Ann Arbor, Mich. (14166). Son of Franklin
B. Wallin and Hannah Chadbourne; grandson of William Chad-
bourne and Selma Whaley ; great-grandson of Alanson Whaley
And Anna Beardsley; great2-grandson of Reynolds Whaley, private
Rhode Island troops; great-grandson of Jabez Chadbourne and
Hanna Cross ; greaP-grandson of William Chadbourne, private
Mass. Continental troops.
CHARLES WOODBURY WARREN, Detroit, Mich. (14164). Son of
Charles Augustus Warren and Mary Anne Day; grandson of
Thomas Warren and Lucy Stanford ; great-grandson of Peter
Warren, Captain, Jonathan Mitchell's Mass. Reg't.
HENRY LATIMER WARREN, Bay City, Mich. (14167). Son of Byron
E. Warren and Jennie E. Ives; grandson of Samuel Nott Warren
and Anna Keeler West ; great-grandson of Andrew West and Eliza-
beth Younglove; great2-grandson of Samuel Younglove, private
Fourteenth Albany County, New York, Militia.
DUDLEY E. WATERS, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14860). Son of Daniel
Howard Waters and Mary Lucretia Leffingwell ; _ grandson of
Christopher William Leffingwell and Mary Ann Hileman ; great-
grandson of Christopher Leffingwell and Margaret Chestney ;
great2-grandsoi\ of Christopher Leffingwell, Colonel Twentieth Conn.
Reg't, Member Conn. Committee of Correspondence.
FRANK WEST, Detroit, Mich. (14158). Son of George Herman West
and Susan Virginia Streetcher; grandson of Henry Franklin
West and Betsy Mitchell; great-grandson of Frederick West and
Anna Cadwell ; great'-grandson of Dan Cadwell, private Mass.
Militia.
GEORGE MORRIS WEST, Detroit, Mich. (14853). Son of George
Herman West and Susan Virginia Streetcher; grandson of Henry
Franklin West and Betsey Mitchell; great-grandson of Frederick
West and Anna Cadwell ; great2-grandson of Dan Cadwell, private
Mass. Militia.
WALTER CLARKE WINCHESTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. (14159). Son
of Samuel A. Winchester and Rebecca Winchester; grandson of
Samuel A. Winchester and Chloe Boynton; great-grandson of
Jonathan Winchester, private Mass. Militia, also of David Boynton,
private, Stickney's New Hampshire Reg't.
HUGH J. WOOD, Detroit, Mich. (14162). Son of Andrew C. and Agnes
J. (Robb) Wood; grandson of Jackson B. and America (White)
Wood; great-grandson of Daniel and Sarah (Bowman) Wood;
great2-grandson of Abner Wood, private, Hasbrouk's New York
Reg't.
MINNESOTA SOCIETY.
HENRY CLAY ALDRICH, Minneapolis, Minn. (141 18). Son of Cyrus
Aldrich and Clara Adelia Heaton; grandson of Cyrus Heaton
and Betsey Spalding; great-grandson of Josiah Spalding and
Eunice Skinner; great2-grandson of Leonard Spalding, private,. Pres-
cott's Mass. Reg't.
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EDWARD JOHNSON BELL, St. Paul, Minn. (14106). Son of William
Dennis Bell and Rosamond A. Johnson; grandson of Dennis
Bell and Huldah Nash ; great-grandson of Solomon Bell, Sergeant,
Brown's Berkshire County, Mass., Reg't; grandson of Samuel
Johnson and Mary Watrous ; great-grandson of Christopher John-
son, Sergeant Conn. Militia.
CHARLES H. BRONSON, St. Paul, Minn. (14121). Son of Elijah
Saben Bronson and Priscilla Newcomb Green ; grandson of David
Bronson and Azubah Judd ; great-grandson of Nathan Judd, private
Conn. Continental troops, pensioned.
HENRY G. DE WITT, Fresno, Cal. (141 12). Son of Matthew C. De
Witt and Jane Ammermen ; grandson of Cornelius D. De Witt,
Sergeant, Pawling's New York Reg't.
.SAMUEL WALES DICKINSON, St. Paul, Minn. (14107). Son of
Justin Dickinson and Betsey Emeline West; grandson of Joel
West and Elizabeth Brockway; great-grandson of Samuel West,
Sergeant Conn. Militia, pensioned, also of Thomas Brockway, Chap-
lain, Selden's Conn. Reg't.
ALDEN LEGRAND HALDEMAN, St. Paul, Minn. (141 14). Son of
Allen Fergus Haldeman and Eliza Caroline Davis; grandson of
Josiah Alden Davis and Harriet Jane Gale; great-grandson of
Solomon Davis and Salome Alden; great2-grandson of Josiah Al-
den and Sarah Robertson; great3-grandson of Austin Alden, Lieu-
tenant, Brewer's Mass. Reg't.
OSCAR HIRAM HALL, St. Paul, Minn. (141 16). Son of Iba H. Hall
and Phebe Taber; grandson of Eli Hall; great-grandson of Jona-
than Hall, private and cornet, Wadsworth's Conn. Brigade.
WINFIELD SCOTT HAMMOND, St. James, Minn. (141 19). Son of
John W. Hammond and Ellen P. Harding; grandson of John
Hammond and Eliza L. Willard; great-grandson of John Hammond
and Sarah Goodnough; great2-grandson of Thomas (and Esther
Dole) Hammond, private New Hampshire and Mass. troops ; great8 -
grandson of David Hammond, private Francis' Mass. Regt, also of
Nathan Dole and Phebe Dole; great4-grandson of John Dole, pri-
vate, Stephen Kent's Company Mass. Militia.
RAYMOND ALEXANDER JACKSON, St. Paul, Minn. (14117)- Son
of Preston T. Jackson and Alice Gilbert; grandson of Newington
Gilbert and Celestia Bangs ; great-grandson of Hiram Gilbert and
Sarah Hibbard ; great2-grandson of John Gilbert, Captain Fifth
Conn. Light Horse.
REGINALD BARKLEY LEACH,' St. Paul, Minn. (14108). Son of
Samuel Bryant Leach and Eliza Geldart; grandson of Silas B.
Leach and Charlotte Carpenter; great-grandson of Samuel Leach
and Phebe Leach; great2-grandson of Silas Leach, private Sproat's
Mass. Reg't ; great-grandson of Ebenezer Carpenter and Mary Wil-
son ; great2-grandson of Asa Carpenter and Eunice Parker ; great--
grandson of Joseph Parker, private Conn. Militia; great2-grandson
of Isaac Wilson, private Second Artillery New York Line.
FREDERICK ELIJAH MAHLER, St. Paul, Minn. (14109). Son of
Charles F. Mahler and Amanda M. Dodd; grandson of Elijah
Dodd and Malvinah Stiles ; great-grandson of Caleb Dodd and Mary
Bates; great2-grandson of Caleb Dodd, Major Second New Jersey
Militia.
GEORGE SOUTHWICK NEAL, St. Paul, Minn. (14m). Son of
William Henry Neal and Sophronia T. Kimball; grandson of
David Neal and Mary Newell Southwick ; great-grandson of George
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 289
Southwick and Mary Lakeman ; greaf-grandson of George South-
wick, Minute Man, killed at Lexington April 19, 1775; grandson of
Hiram Kimball and Eliza Jane Hutchins;- great-grandson of
Simeon Kimball and Sally Kimball ; great2-grandson of Reuben
Kimball, Captain, Stickney's New Hampshire Reg't.
LOUIS DOW SCISCO, St. Paul, Minn. (14120). Son of Lorenzo Dow
Scisco and Emely M. Fellows ; grandson of David Fellows and
Harriet Lobdell; great-grandson of William Fellows and Martha
Smith; great2-grandson of William Fellows and Susannah Rath-
bone ; great3-grandson of Valentine Rathbone, Member Mass. Gen-
eral Court, and Pittsfield Committee of Safety.
CYRUS PARKER SHEPARD, Marshall, Minn. (14113)- Son of Aaron
Shepard and Hetty Parker; grandson of Aaron Shepard and Mercy
Crocker; great-grandson of Thomas Shepard, Sergeant Conn. Con-
tinental troops.
CHARLES F. TRACY, St. Paul, Minn. (141 10). Son of Daniel Tracy
and Sarah A. Lewis ; grandson of Daniel Tracy and Mary Havens ;
great-grandson of Daniel Tracy, Sergeant Conn, troops; grandson
of Thompson Lewis and Anna Winton; great-grandson of Samuel
Winton and Ruth A. Hinman ; great2-grandson of Josiah Hinman,
private Conn, troops.
GEORGE FORREST WEEKS, Minneapolis, Minn. (14105). Son of
Elisha Weeks and Mary A. Johnson; grandson of John Lang
Weeks and Judith Plummer; great-grandson of John Weeks, private
New Hampshire Continental troops.
MISSOURI SOCIETY.
EDWARD LAWRENCE ADREON, St. Louis (not Kansas City), Mo.
(9924, not 9424). [Correction of National Register].
ROBERT BRECK, St. Louis, Mo. (12524). Son of Edward Cruft
Breck and Letitia Todd; grandson of Daniel Breck and Jane
Briggs Todd; great-grandson of Levi (and Jane Briggs) Todd,
Major in George Roger Clark's Campaign, also of Daniel Breck,
Chaplain, Porter's Reg't Mass. Continental Line, pensioned ; great2-
grandson of Samuel Briggs, private in Benjamin Logan's Company
in Indian Campaign.
GEORGE D. CORWINE, Carthage, Mo. (15 103). Son of George Cor-
wine and Lydia McCollister ; grandson of Samuel Corwine and
Mary Wilson ; great-grandson of Richard Corwine, Lieutenant Third
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Militia.
JOHN A. GARDNER, St. Louis, Mo. (15101). Son of Samuel D.
Gardner and Sidney Margaret Apperson; grandson of John Apper-
son and Sidney Hanson; great-grandson of John Apperson, private
Virginia Militia, pensioned.
SAMUEL McKNIGHT GREEN, Jr., St. Louis, Mo. (12525). Son of
Samuel McKnight Green and Jane Elizabeth Johnston; grandson
of Thomas Parish Green and Asenath McKnight; great-grandson
of William Green, Captain First North Carolina Reg't, also of
Samuel Bell McKnight and Arbella Wayne Henderson; great2-
grandson of Robert McKnight, private North Carolina troops.
JAMES MICKLEBOROUGH GREENWOOD (not GREEN OW), Kan-
sas City, Mo. (12509). Son of Edmund Greenwood and Jeannette
Foster, etc. [Correction of National Register].
EDWARD WILSON HOOKER, St. Louis, Mo. (12522). Son of Wilson
Porter Hooker and Martha Elizabeth Rountree; grandson of Lucius
Rountree and Rebecca McClelland; great-grandson of Samuel Mc-
290 ' NATIONAL SOCIETY
Clelland and Elizabeth Taliaferro ; great'-grandson of Richard
Taliaferro; private under George Rogers Clark in Kaskaskia Ex-
pedition.
ELLIS SAMUEL PEPPER, St. Louis, Mo. (12521). Son of Samuel
Pepper and Martha Helen Leavenworth; grandson of Seth Mar-
shall Leavenworth and Esther Matthews; great-grandson of
Elijah Matthews and Jibiah Hand ; great2-grandson of Elijah
Matthews, marine on schooner "Mars," killed in service Sept. 12,
I779-
GEORGE MADISON SHELLEY, Kansas City, Mo. (10859). Son of
James Madison Shelley and Louisa Stubblefield; grandson of
Beverly B. Stubblefield and Eliza Stubblefield; great-grandson of
Beverly Stubblefield, Captain Second Virginia Reg't.
[Omission from National Register.]
LUTHER C. SLAVENS, Kansas City, Mo. (3871). Son of Hiram B.
Slavens and Sarah Slavens ; grandson of Isaiah Slavens and Patty
(his first wife) Slavens; great-grandson of John Slavens, private
Virginia troops, pensioned.
LEWIS BATES TEBBETTS, St. Louis, Mo. (15102). Son of Lewis
Bates Tebbetts and Rebecca Roberts ; grandson of Thomas Roberts
and Elizabeth Garvin; great-grandson of James Garvin, Lieutenant,
Wingate's New Hampshire Volunteers.
HARVEY JESSE WELLS, Kansas City, Mo. (9906). Son of Simeon
Wells and Betsy Eliza Banister; grandson of Dexter Wells and
Dolly Ingalls : great-grandson of Simeon Wells, private Mass.
Militia.
MONTANA SOCIETY.
JOHN JAY BUCKLEY, Missoula, Mont. (11836). Son of Horatio N.
Buckley and Elizabeth Case; grandson of John Jay Buckley and
Mary Musson; great-grandson of Billy Buckley and Mary Turner;
great2-grandson of Peter Turner, private Berkshire County, Mass.,
Militia.
GEORGE H. PIATT, Helena, Mont. (11837)- Son of John Bear Piatt
and Emily Scott ; grandson of James Piatt and Rachael Bear ; great-
grandson of William Piatt, Captain New Jersey Light Infantry
Battalion.
BENJAMIN RISLEY PUTNAM, Butte, Mont. (11835). Son of Charles
E. Putnam and Mary Louisa Duncan ; grandson of Joseph Duncan
and Elizabeth Caldwell Smith; great-grandson of James R. Smith
and Hannah Caldwell; great2-grandson of James Caldwell, "Soldier
Parson," Chaplain New Jersey troops.
NEBRASKA SOCIETY.
PRESSLY JAMES BARR, Omaha, Neb. (13788). Son of Matthew
Robinson Barr and Laura Wright; grandson of James Barr and
Polly Robinson Kelly; great-grandson of John Keelly, private Sixth
Battalion and Seventh Penna. Reg't.
JEFFERSON W. BEDFORD, Kirksville, Mo. (13794). Son of Edwin
W. Bedford and Elizabeth Burton ; grandson of Robert Bedford and
Mary C. Bedford; great-grandson of Thomas Bedford, Captain
Virginia Militia; great2-grandson of Thomas Bedford, Member Vir-
ginia Committee of Safety.
HERBERT M, BUSHNELL, Lincoln, Neb. (13785). Son of Martin
Bushnell and Charlotte P. Clark; grandson of Stephen Clark
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and Charlotte Lovejoy; great-grandson of Paul Clark, Sergeant
Rhode Island Continental troops, pensioned.
IRVING S. CUTTER, Lincoln, Neb. (13789). Son of Charles H.
Cutter and Frances A. Prescott; grandson of Samuel Prescott
and Sarah Osgood; great-grandson of Josiah Prescott and Abigail
Prescott; great2-grandson of Samuel Prescott and Lucy Moulton
Knowles ; greaf-grandson of James Prescott, Lieutenant, Drake's
New Hampshire Reg't.
EDGAR T. FARNS WORTH, Omaha, Neb. (13780). Son of Theodore
Farnsworth and Almira Marston; grandson of Samuel Marston
and Betsey Shorey; great-grandson of John Shorey, private, Scam-
mon's Mass. Reg't.
JOHN ARD GORDON, Omaha, Neb. (13795). Son of Alexander Gor-
don and Cynthia Howard Godfrey; grandson of Ard Godfrey and
Catherine Reed Ganhert; great-grandson of Ard Godfrey and Tam-
erson Austin; great2-grandson of Richard Godfrey, Member Taun-
ton Committee of Safety.
THOMAS VERNER MOORE, Omaha, Neb. (13787). Son of Thomas
Verner Moore and Matilda Cumming Gwathmey; grandson of
Humphrey B. Gwathmey and Frances Fielding Lewis; great-grand-
son of Howell Lewis and Ellen Hackley Pollard; great2-grandsor
of Fielding Lewis, Colonel Quartermaster's Dept. Virginia troops,
Superintendent Fredericksburg Arsenal.
HENRY DAVID NEELY, Omaha, Neb. (13781). Son of Robert Neely
and Helen M. Chase; grandson of Benjamin F. Chase and Mary
Fay Robinson; great-grandson of Fay Robinson and Seraph Howe;
great2-grandson of Moses Robinson, Colonel Vermont Militia, Mem-
ber Council of Safety.
DRAPER SMITH, Omaha, Neb. (13784). Son of Albert Leland Smith
and Sarah Elizabeth Howe; grandson of Draper Smith and Anna
Leland; great-grandson of Joseph Smith, private Mcintosh's Mass.
Reg't, also of Micah Leland, Sergeant Mass. Militia.
EDWARD W ATKINS SPEED, Omaha, Neb. (13792). Son of Joseph
H. Speed and Virginia M. Lockett; grandson of Edward Speed and
Frances Young; great-grandson of John Speed and Mary Wade;
great2-grandson of John Speed, private Eleventh and Fifteenth Vir-
ginia Line.
GEORGE HAMILTON THUMMEL, Omaha, Neb. (13791). Son of
Christian Bernhard Thummel and Catherine Davison Lattin;
grandson of Thomas Anson Lattin and Lucy Davison ; great-
grandson of John Davison, private Sixth and Fourth Conn. Line.
EDWARD MORTON TRACY, Tecumseh, Neb. (13782). Son of Tim-
othy Henry Tracy and Margaret Jane Davidson; grandson of
Henry Tracy and Betsy Munsell ; great-grandson of Timothy
Tracy and Jemima Simons; great2-grandson of Peres Tracy, Cor-
poral Conn, troops.
DUNCAN McARTHUR VINSONHALER, Omaha, Neb. (13786). Son
of George Vinsonhaler and Sarah Rea; grandson of Jacob Vin-
sonhaler and Nancy McDonald; great-grandson of Hugh Mc-
Donald and Jane Montgomery; great2-grandson of William Mc-
Donald, private, Crawford's Penna. Reg't on Sandusky Expedition.
FREDERICK LOTT WHITTEMORE, Lincoln, Neb. (13783). Son of
Francis A. Whittemore and Margaret Elizabeth Lott ; grandson of
Abraham Lott and Susan Baker; great-grandson of Uriah Lott
and Eliza Van Harlingen ; great2-grandson of John M. (and Eleanor
Schureman) Van Harlingen, private Middlesex County, New Jersey,
292 NATIONAL SOCIETY
Militia ; great3-grandson of Ferdinand Schureman, Member New
Brunswick, New Jersey, Committee of Safety; great2-grandson of
Abraham Lotti, private Somerset County, New Jersey, Militia.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS WILDERMAN, Omaha, Neb. ( 13793). Son of
Robert B. Wilderman and Emma Elizabeth Doyle; grandson of
Elisha Doyle and Sarah Ann Fister; great-grandson of John
Fister and Ann Young; greari-grandson of Joseph Young, First
Lieutenant Fifth Battalion Penna. Foot, also of John Fister, private
Berks County, Penna., Militia.
CHARLES MORTIMER WILLIAMS, Fremont, Neb. (13790). Son of
Lewis Williams and Anna E. Meslor; grandson of Charles Wil-
liams and Sarah Skinner; great-grandson of Ichabod Lord Skinner
and Hannah Spencer; great2-grandson of Joseph Spencer, Colonel
Second Conn. Reg't, Major-General Continental Army, Member
Continental Congress.
NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY.
GEORGE FRANK ABBOTT, Littleton, N. H. (15236). Son of George
Abbott and Esther A. Parker ; grandson of Ezra Abbott and Mary
Ann Lang; great-grandson of Ezra Abbott, private, Webster*s Com-
pany New Hampshire Rangers.
JAMES HENRY BAILEY, Littleton, N. H. (14099). Son of Jonathan
Lewis Bailey and Mary Quinby; grandson of William Bailey and
Sukey Williams ; great-grandson of Cyrus Bailey, private, Bedel's
New Hampshire Reg't.
CHARLES HENRY BARTLETT (8249), not deceased, as recorded.
(Correction of National Register.)
FRANK BATTLES, Concord, N. H. (14100). Son of Edwin Battles
and Josephine Curtis; grandson of Jonathan Battles and Maria
Dickerman ; great-grandson of Jonathan Battles, Sergeant Mass.
troops.
ALBERT HARRY BOWMAN, Littleton, N. H. (14098). Son of John
Bowman and Louisa Gile; grandson of Jonathan Bowman and
Anna Conner; great-grandson of Jonas Bowman, Captain New
Hampshire Continental troops.
EDWARD ADELBERT BURBANK, Berlin, N. H. (15226). Son of
Edward Payson Burbank and Mary Smith; grandson of Barker
Burbank and Polly Ingalls ; great-grandson of Eliphalet Burbank,
private Essex County, Mass., Militia.
FREDERICK DORRANCE BURNS, Boston, Mass. (14085). Son of
Samuel Chase Burns and Mary Ann Boynton ; grandson of James
A. Burns and Lydia ^ Chase; great-grandson of William Barns,
Sergeant New Hampshire troops.
FREDERICK STANFORD BURNS, Boston, Mass. (14086). Son of
Frederick D. Burns and Henrietta Brown; grandson of Samuel
Chase Burns and Mary Ann Boynton ; great-grandson of James A.
Burns and Lydia Chase ; greari-grandson of William Burns. Ser-
geant New Hampshire troops.
CHARLES ALBERT EASTMAN, Old Orchard, Me. (14087). Son of
Joseph Hall Eastman and Eliza Jane Bunker ; grandson of Haynes
Eastman and Lovina Peterson ; great-grandson of Caleb Eastman
and Comfort Haynes; greari-grandson of Stilson Eastman, private
New Hampshire Continental troops.
SILAS HARDY, Keene, N. H. (14088). Son of Noah Hardy and
Jerusha Kimball; grandson of David Kimball, private Mass. Militia,
also of Noah Hardy, private New Hampshire Militia.
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CARL SETH HOSKINS, Lisbon, N. H. (14089). Son of Seth F.
Hoskins and Martha Stevens ; grandson of Luther B. Hoskins and
Lucy Walker; great-grandson of Luther Hoskins and Hannah
Crooks; great2-grandson of Elkanah Hoskins, Sergeant Mass. Mil-
itia.
FRED LESLIE HOWL AND, Lancaster, N. H. (14096). Son of Alonzo
C. Howland and Ellen C. Doonan; grandson of Charles White
Howland and Lucia Ann Burt; great-grandson of Eber Howland
and Betsy Smead; great2-grandson of Ebenezer Howland and Lu-
cretia Lamb; greaf-grandson of John Howland, Ensign, Learned's
Mass. Reg't.
WILLIAM STUART KENNEY, Littleton, N. H. (15227). Son of
Lorenzo Cushman Kenney and Martha Ann Eastman; grandson
of Edward Oakes Kenney and Nancy Stuart Smith ; great-grandson
of Isaac Smith and Mercy Priest; great2-grandson of Samuel
Smith, Sergeant New Hampshire troops.
HENRY CLAY LIB BEY, Lisbon, N. H. (14090). Son of Nathaniel
Libby and Tirzah Lord; grandson of Charles Libby and Sarah
Pray; great-grandson of Charles Libby, Sergeant Mass. Militia.
JONAS MINOT, Beresford, South Dakota. (14091). Son of Jonas
Minot and Electa Frary Morton; grandson of James Minot and
Sally Wilson; great-grandson of Jonas Minot, Captain Mass. Militia;
grandson of Daniel Oliver Morton and Lucretia Parsons; great-
grandson of Livy Morton, private Mass. Militia, also of Justin (and
Electa Frary) Parsons, private Mass. troops, pensioned; great--
grandson of Nathan Frary, private Mass. Militia.
HERBERT WOODBURY PRESCOTT PUTNAM, Claremont, N. H.
(14095). Son of Prescott Putnam and Emily P. Cutting; grand-
son of Freeman Cutting and Emily A. Hubbard; great-grandson
of Francis Cutting and Keziah Hudson ; great2-grandson of Ben-
jamin Cutting, private Mass. Militia ; great-grandson of Oliver
Hubbard and Sophia Putnam; great2-grandson of Oliver Hubbard
(Hobart), private, Ashley's New Hampshire Reg't.
CHARLES SPIELMANN RICHARDS, New York, N. Y. (11947)- Son
of Jeremiah Richards and Susan A. Monfort, not Montfort;
grandson of Jacob Monfort and Harriet E. Carman ; great-grandson
of John Peter Monfort, private Second Dutchess County, New York,
Militia ; great2-grandson of Peter Monfoort, private Second Dutchess
County, New York, Militia, etc. (Correction of National Register.)
JEREMIAH RICHARDS, New York, N. Y. (11932). (Supplementals.)
Son of Jeremiah Richards and Lydia A. Peck; grandson of John
Richards and Mary Barrett; great-grandson of Ebenezer (and
Hannah Wismall) Richards, Jr., Sergeant Mass. Militia ; great2-
grandson of Noah Wiswall, private Mass. Militia, Lexington Alarm ;
great-grandson of Stephen Barrett, Sergeant Mass. Continental
troops ; grandson of Oren Peck and Eliza Williams ; great-grandson
of James (and Lydia Pratt) Peck, private, Carpenter's Mass. Reg't;
great2-grandson of Aaron Pratt, private, Mitchell's Mass. Reg't;
great-grandson of Samuel Williams and Azubah Crane ; great2-
grandson of Amariah Crane, Sergeant, Gill's Mass. Reg't.
MYRON HERVEY RICHARDSON, Littleton, N. H. (15235). Son of
Zurial Albee Richardson and Olive Jesseman ; grandson of David
Richardson and Priscilla Albee; great-grandson of John Richard-
son and Olive Dailey; great2-grandson of Luther' Richardson, Cap-
tain New Hampshire troops.
JOSIAH LAFAYETTE SEWARD, Keene, N. H. (15228). Son of David
Seward and Arvilla Matthews ; grandson of Josiah Seward and
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Polly Wilson; great-grandson of Josiah Seward, private, Prescott's
Mass. Reg't; grandson of James Matthews and Abigail Keith;
great-grandson of Robert' Matthews, private New Hampshire troops,
also of Ichabod Keith, private Mass. troops, also of Daniel Wilson,
private New Hampshire Continental troops.
JOHN TAPLEY WELCH, Dover, N. H. (7652). (Supplemental.) Son
of Joseph Williams Welch and Mary Elizabeth Tapley; grandson
of John Tapley and Lydia Reade; great-grandson of Asa Tapley,
private Mass. Militia ; great2-grandson of Gilbert Tapley, Lieuten-
ant Mass. Militia.
WILLIAM FREDERICK WHITCHER, Woodsville, N. H. (14094)- Son
of Ira Whitcher and Lucy Royes ; grandson of William Whitch-
er and Mary Noyes ; great-grandson of Chase Whitcher, private
.New Hampshire Militia.
JONAS FRED WHITCOMB, Keene, N. H. (15229). Son of Elbridge
Gerry Whitcomb and Salome Newcomb; grandson of Abijah
Whitcomb and Lucy Stratton; great-grandson of Philemon Whit-
comb, Lieutenant New Hampshire Militia.
NEWTON ALLEN WILLIS, Concord, N. H. (15230). Son of George
Willis and Marietta Allen; grandson of Wad Allen; great-grand-
son of Samuel Allen, Lieutenant Mass. Continental troops.
FRANK DANA WOODBURY, Concord, N. H. (14092). Son of Wash-
ington Woodbury and Dolly Head Jones ; grandson of Luke Wood-
bury, Lieutenant New Hampshire troops; grandson of Hezekiah
Jones and Dolly Head; great-grandson of Nathaniel Jones, Captain
New Hampshire Militia.
CLEMENT JOSIAH WOODWARD, Keene, N. H. (15233). Son of
Josiah M. Woodward and Sarah Jane Newcomb; grandson of Le
Prelite Newcomb and Susan Harris ; great-grandson of John New-
comb, Corporal, Daggett's Mass. Reg't.
ELISHA HARRISS WRIGHT, Sanbornton, N. H. (15231). Son of
Benjamin Wright and Lucy Wells ; grandson of James Wells, Jr.,
and Lydia Manchester; great-grandson of James Wells, Lieutenant
Scituate, Rhode Island, Militia.
ROBERT MORRILL WRIGHT, Sanbornton, N. H. (15232). Son of
Elisha Harriss Wright and Ambrosia R. Morrill; grandson of
Benjamin Wright and Lucy Wells; great-grandson of James
Wells, Jr., and Lydia Manchester; great2-grandson of James Wells,
Lieutenant Scituate, Rhode Island, Militia.
MILLARD FILLMORE YOUNG, Littleton, N. H. (15234). Son of
Ithiel Young and Nancy Wells ; grandson of Joseph Young, private
New Hampshire Frontier Rangers.
NEW JERSEY SOCIETY.
THOMAS VICTOR AGENS, East Orange, N. J. (14578). Son of Jonas
Agens and Elijah Ogden Price; grandson of James Agens, private
Fourth Maryland and Fifth New Yorg Reg'ts, pensioned.
WILLIAM GREENE (not GREEN) BINNEY, Burlington, N. J. (5013).
Son of Amos Binney and Mary Ann Binney; grandson of Amos
Binney and Hannah Dolliver; great-grandson (not grandson) of
Amos Binney, private Independent Militia Company of Hull, Mass.
(Correction of National Register.)
EUGENE Le R. CADMUS, Bloomfield, N. J. (6199). Son of George
W. Cadmus and Leah Maria Cadmus; grandson of Cornelius
Cadmus and Rachael Osborn; great-grandson of Thomas Cadmus,
Lieutenant-Colonel New Jersey Militia.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 295
ROBERT NELSON EARL, Elizabeth, N. J. (6200). Son of John
Nelson Earl and Jane Eliza Crane; grandson of Robert Cross-
man Earl and Phebe C. Thompson; great-grandson of Edward
Earl, private New Jersey Militia ; great2-grandson of John Earl, Cor-
poral New Jersey State troops.
DELANCEY WALKER . FISKE, Philadelphia, Pa. (14586). Son of
George McClellan Fiske and Mary Greenough Walker; grandson
of Marcus Lyon Fiske and Frances Anne Tinker; great-grandson
of Rufus Fiske and Irene Scripture; great2-grandson of Rufus
Fiske, Corporal, Hewit's Company, Latimer's Conn. Reg't; grand-
son of William Sydney Walker and Eliza Greenough; great-
grandson of Ebenezer Greenough; great2-grandson of Ebenezer
Greenough, private Haverhill, Mass., Artillery.
REGINALD FISKE, Providence, R. I. (14587). Son of George Mc-
Clellan Fiske and Mary Greenough Walker; grandson of Mar-
cus Lyon Fiske and Frances Anne Tinker; great-grandson of
Rufus Fiske and Irene Scripture; great"-grandson of Rufus Fiske,
Corporal, Hewit's Company, Latimer's Conn. Reg't ; grandson of
William Sydney Walker and Eliza Greenough ; great-grandson of
Ebenezer Greenough; great2-grandson of Ebenezer Greenough, pri-
vate Haverhill, Mass., Artillery.
HENRY D. GOULD, Newark, N. J. (14577). Son of Nathaniel M
Gould and Margaret Francisco Gould ; grandson of William Gould,
private Essex County, New Jersey, State troops.
ALFRED T. HOLLEY, Hackensack, N. J. (6198). Son of William
Welles Holley and Katherine A. Wyse; grandson of Alfred A.
Holley and Mary C. Tillman; great-grandson of John Tillman
and Ann Seymour Hoyt ; great2-grandson of Samuel Hoyt, Lieu-
tenant Conn. State troops.
EDWARD Q. KEASBEY, Morristown, N. J. (14581). Son of Anthony
Q. Keasbey and Elizabeth Miller ; grandson of Edward Q. Keasbey
and Mary Aertson ; great-grandson of Anthony Keasbey and Han-
nah Brick; great2-grandson of Edward Keasbey, Member New Jer-
sey Council of Safety, Member New Jersey Provincial Congress;
great-grandson of Guilliam Aertson and Esther Parry; great2-
grandsan of Caleb Parry, Lieutenant-Colonel, Atlee's Penna. Mus-
ketry Battalion, killed at battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776.
GEORGE M. KEASBEY, South Orange, N. J. (14582). Son of Anthony
Q. Keasbey and Elizabeth Miller; grandson of Edward Q. Keasbey
and Mary Aertson; great-grandson of Anthony Keasbey and Han-
nah Brick; great2-grandson of Edward Keasbey, Member New Jer-
sey Council of Safety and of New Jersey Provincial Congress;
great-grandson of Guilliam Aertson and Esther Parry ; great2-
grandsan of Caleb Parry, Lieutenant-Colonel, Atlee's Penna. Mus-
ketry Battalion, killed at battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776.
ROBERT H. McCARTER, Newark, N. J. (14580). Son of Thomas Nes-
bitt McCarter and Mary L. Haggerty; grandson of Robert H.
McCarter and Eliza Nesbitt; great-grandson of John McCarter,
Assistant Commissary of Issues, New Jersey troops.
THOMAS N. McCARTER, Newark, N. J. (15955). Son of Thomas
Nesbitt McCarter and Mary L. Haggerty; grandson of Robert H.
McCarter and Eliza Nesbitt ; great-grandson of John McCarter, As-
sistant Commissary of Issues, New Jersey troops.
UZAL H. McCARTER, Newark, N. J. (14580). Son of Thomas Nes-
bitt McCarter and Mary L. Haggerty; grandson of Robert H.
McCarter and Eliza Nesbitt; great-grandson of John McCarter,
Assistant Commissary of Issues, New Jersey troops.
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CHARLES LABAN PARDEE, Orange, N. J. (14585). Son of Charles
Hezekiah Pardee and Anna Eliza Austin; grandson of Laban
Pardee and Mary Thompson ; great-grandson of Joseph Pardee,
private Conn. Artillery Guards.
DAVID VANDERVEER PERRINE, Freehold, N. J. (58). Son of David
Clark Perrine and Hannah M. Vanderveer; grandson of David
Perrine and Phebe Baird; also of David I. Vanderveer and Mary
Conover ; great-grandson of John Perrine, private Middlesex County,
New Jersey, Militia, also of David Baird, Captain Monmouth County,
New Jersey, Militia, and of John Conover (Covenhoven), private
Monmouth County, New Jersey, Militia.
JAMES F. RUSLING, Trenton, N. J. (151). Son of Gershom Rusling
and Eiiza B. Hankinson ; grandson of Henry Hankinson and Maria
McCullough ; great-grandson of Aaron Hankinson, Colonel (not pri-
vate) Second Reg't Sussex County, New Jersey, Militia (Brig.-Gen.,
1793) ; great-grandson of William McCullough, private New Jersey
Militia, Captain and Conductor of Team Brigade, Wagonmaster's
Department, New Jersey troops; great-great-grandson of Benjamin
McCullough, Captain, Heard's Brigade, June 14, 1776, Captain First
Reg't Sussex County, New Jersey, May 24, 1777. (Correction of Na-
tional Register.)
EDWIN ALLEN SMITH, Newark, N. J. (14583)- Son of Edwin B
Smith and Lavinia Moore ; grandson of William Allen Smith
and Phoebe Hand ; great-grandson of Benjamin W. Smith and
Sarah Allen ; great2-grandson of William Smith, private in Capt.
Squire's Company, Second Reg't Essex County, New Jersey, Militia,
also of Samuel Allen, Ensign, Captain Beach's Company, Eastern
Battalion, New Jersey troops ; great-grandson of Ira Hand and
Rhoda Crowell ; grear'-grandson of Sylvanus Croiuell, private New
Jersey State troops.
EDWIN BROWN SMITH, Newark, N. J. (14584)- Son of William
Allen Smith and Phoebe Hand; grandson of Benjamin W. Smith
and Sarah Allen; great-grandson of William Smith, private Captain
Squire's Company Second Essex County Reg't, New Jersey Militia,
also of Samuel Allen, Ensign, Captain Beach's Eastern Battalion,
New Jersey troops ; grandson of Ira Hand and Rhoda Crowell ;
great-grandson of Sylvanus Crowell, private New Jersey State
troops.
NEW YORK.
EMPIRE STATE SOCIETY.
KERR FREEMAN ALBERTSON, New York, N. Y. (14927)- Son of
Comsen H. Albertson and Clarissa White; grandson of Sampson
H. Albertson and Abbey S. Comsen; great-grandson of Nicholas
Albertson and Jane Howell ; great2-grandson of Garret Albertson,
Second Major Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Militia.
CHAUNCEY LOOMIS ALLEN. Syracuse, N. Y. (14745). Son of
George Richmond Allen and Mary A. Brown ; grandson of Almon
Allen and Polly Bates; great-grandson of Jacob Allen, Jr., private
and fifer Mass. Continental troops; great2-grandson of Jacob Allen,
Sr., Captain Mass. Continental troops.
JAMES FRANCIS JEWELL ARCHIBALD. New York, N. Y. (15367).
Son of Francis Albert Archibald and Martha Washington Jewell ;
grandson of Daniel Jewell and Clarissa Cox; great-grandson of
Hugh Cox and Sarah ; great2-grandson of Hugh Cox, private Ger-
rish's Reg't Mass. Guards.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 297
CHARLES SIDLE AVERILL, Syracuse, N. Y. (14928). Son of Edgar
Averill and Abbie Mary Young; grandson of Stephen Noble
Averill and Susan Moore ; great-grandson of Nathan Averill and
Rosanna Noble; great2-grandson of Daniel Averill, private Conn.
Continental troops.
FRANCIS EUGENE BACON, Syracuse, N. Y. (14496). Son of Charles
Giles Bacon and Mary M. Whitaker ; grandson of Herman Bacon ;
great-grandson of Jeremiah Bacon, Sergeant Mass. Militia.
D. HINSDELL BAKER, Syracuse, N. Y. (14736). Son of Chester Baker
and Theresa Clapp; grandson of John Clapp and Sarah Hinsdell ;
great-grandson of Paul Clapp, private Mass. Continental troops.
SETH D. BAKER, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14737). Son of Chester Baker
and Theresa Clapp; grandson of John Clapp and Sarah Hinsdell;
great-grandson of Paul Clapp, private Mass. Continental troops.
HARVEY BALDWIN, Jr., New York, N. Y. (15072). Son of Harvey
Baldwin and Ann Sarah Dodge ; grandson of Jonas Cutler Bald-
win and Elizabeth Warner; great-grandson of Samuel Baldwin,
Captain Mass. troops; grandson of William Irving Dodge; great-
grandson of Richard Dodge, fifer Fifth New York Line; great2-
grandson of Samuel Dodge, Lieutenant New York Line.
ARTHUR STEVENS BARBER, Syracuse, N. Y. (14929). Son of
Jedediah Barber and Sarah E. Stevens; grandson of George J. J.
Barber and Catherine Reid ; great-grandson of Jedediah Barber and
Matilda Tuttle ; great2-grandson of Moses Tuttle, private New York
and Conn, troops, pensioned.
HARRY BARBER, Homer, N. Y. (14930). Son of Thomas H. Hinton
and Emma Jane Barber ; grandson of Paris Barber and Lydia Jane
Eno ; great-grandson of Jedediah Barber and Matilda Tuttle ; great2-
grandson of Moses Tuttle, private New York and Conn, troops, pen-
sioned.
JOSEPH L. BARKER, Brooklyn, N. Y. ( 14931) . Son of Julius Barker
and Margaret Griswold; grandson of Joseph Alden Barker and
Susan Graves; great-grandson of John Barker and Sally Alden;
great2-grandson of John Barker, Orderly Sergeant Mass. Militia.
FRANKLIN BAYLIS, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14947). Son of Abiah Palmer
Balis and Mary Jane Gregory; grandson of Joseph Gregory and
Rachael Bullock; great-grandson of Ebenezer Gregory, private
Conn. Militia; great2-grandson of Joseph Gregory, Ensign New
York Militia.
NATHAN THOMAS BEERS, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. (15073). Son of
Nathan T. Beers and Elizabeth Louise Granger; great-grandson of
Nathan T. Beers and Harriet Kirk Frazier; great-grandson of
Thomas Frazier and Ann Richardson; great2-grandson of Stephen
Richardson and Huldah Deming ; great3-grandson of Lemuel Rich-
ardson and Anna Rust ; great4-grandson of Amos Richardson, Cap-
tain Conn. Militia.
ALVIN JACKSON BELDEN, Syracuse, N. Y. (14746). Son of Augus-
tus Cadwell Belden and Roselia Jackson; grandson of Royal
Denison Belden and Olive Cadwell, great2-grandson of Augustus
Belden, private Mass. Militia, also of John Cadwell, private Conn.
Militia.
MEAD VAN ZILE BELDEN, Syracuse, N. Y. (14747). Son of James
Mead Belden and Jessie Perry Van Zile; grandson of Augustus
Cadwell Belden and Roselia Jackson ; great-grandson of Royal
Denison Belden and Olive Cadwell ; great2-grandson of Augustus
Belden, private Mass. Militia, also of John Cadwell, private Conn.
Militia.
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JAMES EDWARD BRISTOL, Brooklyn, N. Y. (14532). Son of Dennis
Bristol and Esther Tibbals; grandson of Nehemiah Bristol and
Laura Downs; great-grandson of Horatio Downs and Nancy Smith;
great2-grandson of John Downs, Sergeant, Orderly and Quartermas-
ter Conn, troops ; grandson of Elisha Tibbals and Maria Tomlin-
son; great-grandson of Arnold Tibbals, private, Wadsworth's Conn.
Brigade.
EDWARD D. BROMHAM, Stamford, Conn. (14948). Son of John
Bromham and Martha Driggs ; grandson of Andrew Driggs and
Rebecca Burwell ; great-grandson of Daniel Burwell, private Conn,
troops, pensioned.
HOWARD KIRK BROWN, Syracuse, N. Y. (15368). Son of Clarence
Gillette Brown and Agnes Elizabeth Mowatt; grandson of John
Mowatt and Amelia Manchester ; great-grandson of Daniel Man-
chester and Betsey Potter; great2-grandson of John Manchester,
First Lieutenant Rhode Island Militia.
GEORGE H. BUNCE, Herkimer, N. Y. (15075)- Son of Madison Bunce
and Martha Ann Finkle; grandson of Jacob Bunce and Nancy
Barhydt; great-grandson of Lodewick Bunt (or Bunce), private
Second New York Foot.
WINFORD C. BURGESS, Newark, N. Y. (14932). Son of A. Parke
Burgess and Jennette P. Green ; grandson of Ezra Green and
Matilda Dewey; great-grandson of George Green and Betsey De
Forest; great2-grandson of Lodowick Green, private Rhode Island
troops, pensioned, also of Peter De Forest (Ferris), Captain Third
Conn. Line, pensioned.
ARTHUR BURTIS, U. S. Navy (not Army), (4286). (Correction of
National Register.)
CHARLES FREEMAN CANTINE/ Kingston, N. Y. (14548). Son of
Peter Cantine and Sarah Ann Starin; grandson of Martin Can-
tine and Lydia Elmendorf; great-grandson of Peter A. Cantine
and Jane Sammons ; great2-grandson of Abraham Cantine, Lieuten-
ant Ulster County, New York Militia ; great-grandson of El-
mendorf and Eve Schoonmaker ; great2-grandson of Frederick
Schoonmaker, Captain Mounted Volunteers, Third Ulster County
Militia ; grandson of Myndert Starin and Rachel Sammons ; great-
grandson of John Starin, private Tryon County, New York, Militia ;
great-grandson of Thomas Sammons; great2-grandson of Sampson
Sammons, Ensign Tryon County, New York, Militia.
LA WTO N CATEN, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14949). Son of Leonard Caten
and Nancy A. P'rior ; grandson of Richard Caten, private Mass.
Continental troops.
LEVI SNELL CHAPMAN, Syracuse, N. Y. (14950). Son of Nathan
Randall Chapman and Martha Maria Tibbitts ; grandson of Nathan
(and Harmel Randall) Chapman, private Conn, troops; great-grand-
son of Peleg Randall, Lieutenant Conn. Continental troops.
WILLIAM BEMENT CLAFLIN, Brooklyn, N. Y. (15051). Son of
Waldo M. Claflin and Mary Ella Bement; grandson of James
Russell Claflin and Hannah Farrington ; great-grandson of Rufus
Claflin and Hepsibeth Bolster; great2-grandson of Samuel Claiiin,
Lieutenant Ninth Mass. Line.
EDWARD BERNARD COBURN, New York, N. Y. ( 14533)- Son of
Edward Snyder Coburn and Harriet Bernard ; grandson of Edward
Lord Coburn and Catherine Snyder; great-grandson of Stephen H.
Coburn and Anna Lord ; great2-grandson of Edward Coburx and
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 299
Eunice Hulbert ; great3-grandson of Edward Coburn, Sergeant, Gen.
Waterbury's Conn. Brigade.
JAMES MORRISON COLWELL, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14549)- Son of
Thomas Colwell and Amelia Morrison; grandson of James Mor-
rison and Amelia Collins; great-grandson of Robert Collins and
Amelia Maxson ; great2-grandson of Asa Maxson Lieutenant Fourth
Rhode Island Militia ; great3-grandson of David Maxson, Member
Westerly Ammunition Committee, Deputy Rhode Island Legislature.
GEORGE FOSTER COMSTOCK, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (1535*). Son
of George Washington Comstock and Harriet Olivia Carr; grand-
son of William Carr and Phoebe Perry ; great-grandson of Joseph
Carr, Corporal Rhode Island troops, pensioned.
HOWARD BELL COOK, New York, N. Y. (15354)- Son of Ira W.
Cook and Isabella Lawson Alexander ; grandson of Ebenezer Alex-
ander and Margaret White McClung; great-grandson of Charles
McClung and Margaret White ; great2-grandson of James White,
Captain North Carolina Continental Troops.
GEORGE N. CROUSE, Syracuse, N. Y. (15052). Son of George N.
Crouse and Florence Marlette ; grandson of Edwin R. Marlette and
Frances Wright ; great-grandson of Rial Wright and Anne Gray,
great2-grandson of Preserved Wright and Jemima King; great3-
grandson of Solomon Wright, Sergeant Conn. Militia.
CHARLES DRAPER CULBERTSON, New York, N. Y. (15366). Son
of Charles William Culbertson and Frances Lydia Culbertson;
grandson of Samuel Culbertson and Eliza Jane Culbertson ; great-
grandson of Charles McClay Culbertson and Mariah Culbertson;
great2-grandson of Samuel Culbertson (and Elizabeth McClay), Col-
onel Sixth Battalion Cumberland County, Penna., Militia ; great8-
grandson of John McClay, Member Philadelphia Conference of
1776.
ROBERT. JOHNSON DAVIS, Sandhills, Beckenham, Kent, England
(14534). Son of William Davis and Delia A. Olmsted; grandson
of Charles S. Olmsted and Anne Johnson ; great-grandson of
David Olmsted and Dorcas Smith; great2-grandson of David Olm-
sted, Lieutenant Colonel Sixteenth Conn. Reg't, Member Conn. Leg-
islature.
OTIS A. DENNIS, Whitehall, N. Y. (15355)- Son of George Henry
Dennis and Sarah Tiff; grandson of Jared Gallup Dennis and
Lorhnamy Davis ; great-grandson of Samuel Dennis, Seamon on
Continental Frigate "Confederacy."
JOHN P. H. DE WINT, New York, N. Y. (14748). Son of John
Adams de Wint and Mary E. Smith; grandson of John Peter de
Wint and Elizabeth A. Smith ; great-grandson of William Stephens
Smith (and Abigail Adams), Major and Aide-de-Camp to General
Sullivan, Adjutant and Inspector on staff of Lafayette; great-grand-
son of John Adams, Signer of Declaration of Independence.
WILLARD CLARK DU BOIS, Syracuse, N. Y. (15191). Son of Ste-
phen Van Rensalaer Du Bois and Mary Jane Clark; grandson of
Benjamin Clark and Mary Ridelle; great-grandson of Gavin Rid-
dle (or Ridelle), private Mass. troops.
CHARLES HOLLAND DUELL, Syracuse, N. Y. (14497). Son of Ru-
dolphus Holland Duell and Mary Ledyard Cuyler ; grandson of
Richard Glen Cuyler and Julia Ann Wheaton; great-grandson of
Glen Cuyler and Mary Forman Ledyard; great2-grandson of Ben-
jamin Ledyard, Major Fourth New York Continental Infantry.
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HARRY CRANSTON DURSTON, Manlius, N. Y. (15375)- Son of
Thomas Watson Durston and Alice Edwards; grandson of
Thomas Cranston Edwards and Mary Middlebrook; great-grand-
son of Hervey Edwards and Eliza Cranston; great2-grandson of
Samuel Edwards; great3-grandson of Jonathan Edwards, private
Second Conn. Line.
JOHN FRANKLIN DURSTON, Syracuse, N. Y. (15196). Son of
Thomas Watson Durston and Alice Edwards; grandson of
Thomas C. Edwards and Mary Middlebrook; great-grandson of
Hervey Edwards and Eliza Cranston; great2-grandson of Samuel
Edwards ; great3-grandson of Jonathan Edwards, private Second
Conn. Line.
HERVEY EDWARDS EATON, Eaton, N. Y. (15358). Son of Harry
Eaton and Emily Edwards ; grandson of Daniel Edwards and Lucy
Robinson ; great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards, private Second
Conn. Line.
HARRY NELSON EATON, Eaton, N. Y. (15352). Son of Hervey
Edwards Eaton and Charlotte Olivia Wood; grandson of Allen
Nelson Wood and Calista Marietta Eaton ; great-grandson of Allen
Wood and Lucinda Newcomb ; great2-grandson of Daniel Newcomb,
Lieutenant Mass. troops. Member Bernardstown Committee of Cor-
respondence.
DANIEL M. EDWARDS, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14744)- Son of Eleazer W.
Edwards and Amy Ann Murray; grandson of Daniel Edwards and
Margaret McAllister; great-grandson of John Edwards and Mar-
garet Yanney; great2-grandson of Henry Yanney, Sergeant Third
Tryon County, New York, Militia.
DARWIN W. ESMOND, New York, N. Y. (15357). Son of Darwin
Esmond and Geraldine L. A. Warner; grandson of John Esmond
and Abagail Foster; great-grandson of Parla Foster, private Mass.
troops, pensioned.
GEORGE AMOS FARNHAM, Yonkers, N. Y. (14742). Son of Amos
Brown Farnham and Ann Macdonald; grandson of Joseph Farn-
ham and Hannah Brown ; great-grandson of Samuel Brown, Lieu-
tenant New Hampshire Militia.
ROBERT H. FANCHER, New York, N. Y. (15356). Son of Cyrus
Fancher and Susan Hoyt ; grandson of Jared Hoyt and Elizabeth
Mead ; great-grandson of Eri Mead and Esther Benedict ; great2-
grandson of Lebbeus Mead, Sergeant, Drake's New York Reg't.
BENJAMIN FENTON, Buffalo, N. Y. (15053). Son of Solomon Fen-
ton and Sarah Sturges ; grandson of Aaron Burr Sturges and
Salina Wakeman ; great-grandson of William Wakeman, Sergeant
Conn. Continental Troops.
BENJAMIN W. FENTON, Buffalo, N. Y. (14550). Son of Benjamin
Fenton and Julia A. Soynisch; grandson of Solomon Fenton and
Sarah Sturges ; great-grandson of Aaron Burr Sturges and Salina
Wakeman, also of William Wakeman, Sergeant Conn. Continental
Conn. Continental troops.
CLARENCE M. FENTON, Buffalo, NL Y. (14535). son of Benjamin
Fenton and Julia A. Soynisch ; grandson of Solomon Fenton and
Sarah Soynisch Sturges ; great-grandson of Aaron Burr Sturges.
and Salina Wakeman; great2-grandson of William Wakeman, Ser-
orp^mt Conn. Continental Troops.
JAMES FENTON, Buffalo, N. Y. (15054)- Son of Solomon Fenton
and Sarah H. Sturges; grandson of Aaron Burr Sturges and Salina
Wakeman; great-grandson of William Wakeman, Sergeant Conn.
Continental Troops.
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HARRY ALLEN FLINT, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14749)- Son of Leverett V.
Flint and Margaret M. Follett; grandson of Isaac Follett and
Penina Hunt; great-grandson of James Hunt and Margaret Hor-
ton; great2-grandson of Jonathan Horton, Major Sixth New York
Reg't.
WALTER SCOTT FLINT, Binghamton, N. Y. (14498). Son of La-
fayette Flint and Sophia E. Welch ; grandson of George Flint and
Polly Saunders; great-grandson of John Flint and Molly Wor-
cester; great2-grandson of John Flint, Captain Middlesex County,
Mass., Militia.
FREDERICK HYDE FOOT, Binghamton, N. Y. (15176). Son of Isaac
Foote and Jerusha Merrick; grandson of Isaac Foote and Harriet
Hyde; great-grandson of Isaac Foote, private Lamb's Corps, Con-
tinental Artillery.
FRANK ELLIS FORSYTH, Newburgh, N. Y. (151.92). Son of John
W. Forsyth and Maria J. Wheeler; grandson of Sylvester
Wheeler and Drusilla Smith ; great-grandson of Lewis Smith
and Elizabeth Gildersleeve; great2-grandson of Finch Gild ersle eve ,
First Lieutenant New York Continental Troops.
FREDERICK WILLIAM FOX, U. S. Army, Fort Trumbull, Conn.
(14499). Son of Royal Evaungeal Fox and Isabella Wilson;
grandson of R. A. Fox and Celinda Hamlin ; great-grandson of Sim-
eon Hamlin and Elizabeth Pierce; great2-grandson of Clothier
Pierce, private Vermont Militia.
JOSEPHUS H. FROI DE VEAUX, Syracuse, N. Y. (15055). Son of
Theodore D. Froi de Veaux and Sarah R. Hipsley; grandson of
Josephus Hipsley and Sarah A. Welshause; great-grandson of
John J. Welshause and Sally Ann Pool; great2-grandson of John
Pool and Barbary Rothermal; great3-grandson of Daniel Rothermal,
private Berks County, Penna., Militia.
JAMES M. GILBERT, Syracuse, N. Y. (15056). Son of William Gil-
bert and Rachel C. Morgan; grandson of Abraham Morgan and
Elizabeth Kettel; great-grandson of Charles Morgan, private New
Jersey Continental Troops.
WATSON GILL, Syracuse, N. Y. (14726). Son of John Williamson
Gill and Elizabeth Davis Johnson ; grandson of Elijah Gill and
Rebecca Hawes ; great-grandson of Elijah Gill and Abigail Fisher ;
great2-grandson of Benjamin Gill, Colonel Third Suffolk County,
Mass., Militia.
GEORGE COOLEY GORDON, Brockport, N. Y. (15057)- Son of
George Cooley Gordon and Ida M. Hooker; grandson of Luthek
Gordon and Florilla Cooley; great-grandson of John Gordon and
Harmony Woodworth ; great2-grandson of James Gordon, private
New Hampshire Continental Troops, pensioned.
JOSHUA GRIFFETH, Ludingtonville, N. Y. (14500). Son of Joshua
Griffeth and Tamson Birdsall; grandson of Joshua Griff 'eth, pri-
vate Dutchess County, New York, Militia.
GEORGE H. GRIFFIN, New York, N. Y. (15199)- Son of Thomas
Griffin and Caroline M. Wirth ; grandson of William Bailey
Griifin and Eliza Jane Covel; great-grandson of Doctor Covel and
Elizabeth Ask; great2-grandson of Samuel Ask, private Conn. Mil-
itia, pensioned.
EDWARD A. HALL, Brooklyn, N. Y. ( 14934)- Son of William A.
Hall and Abigail Keene Underhill ; grandson of Isaac Hall and
Sarah Sophia Phelps; great-grandson of Asa Hosmer Phelps and
Margery McConn ; great2-grandson of Eliphalet Phelps and Me-
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hitable Dodge; great3-grandson of Eliplialet Phelps, private Eigh-
teenth Conn. Militia ; great*-grandson of Silas Phelps, private Third
Conn. Line.
FRANK OLIVER HALL, New York, N. Y. (15373). Son of Oliver
Aaron Hall and Clarissa Alcott Stanley; grandson of Benjamin
Stanley and Harriet Page ; great-grandson of Dennis Stanley, Lieu-
tenant New Hampshire Troops.
CHARLES G. HANCHETT, Syracuse, N. Y. (15058). Son of John C.
Hanchett and Emma Barlow ; grandson of John Wilkes Han-
chett and Margaret Granger ; great-grandson of Oliver Hanchett,
Captain Conn. Continental Infantry.
LAURENCE PERES HANCOCK, Buffalo, N. Y. (15177). Son of
James Denton Hancock and Ella Cordelia Hitchcock; grandson of
James Hancock and Polly Perkins; great-grandson of David Per-
kins; great2-grandson of John Perkins, private Conn. Militia of
Westmoreland County, Penna., killed by Indians, July 6, 1777 ; grand-
son of Laurence Peres Hitchcock and Elizabeth Johnson; great-
grandson of Aaron Hitchcock and Melita Mann ; great2-grandson
of Zachariah Hitchcock, Captain Conn. Troops.
HAMMOND LEE HARDING, New York, N. Y. (15353). Son of
Philip W. Harding and Emma Bush; grandson of Walter E.
Harding and Mary Woelpper; great-grandson of George Woelp-
per and Mary Weary; great2-grandson of John David Woelpper,
Captain Penna. German Battalion.
JACOB LEWIS HARTSOCK, Yonkers, N. Y. (15178). Son of S. M.
Hartsock and Mary Elizabeth Lewis ; grandson of Jacob Lewis
and Delia Smith ; great-grandson of Elisha Sanford Smith and
Betsy Birdsall ; great3-grandson of Gilbert Smith, Corporal Chap-
man's Reg't Conn. Foot; great-3grandson of Ephraim Smith, pri-
vate, Douglas' Conn. Reg't.
BARTLETT FANNING HAWKINS, Brooklyn, N. Y. (15179). Son of
Bartlett Tuthill Hawkins and Hepzibah Barteau ; grandson of
David Hawkins and Prudence Tuthill; great-grandson of Nathan
(or Nathaniel) Tuthill, private First Suffolk County New York
Militia.
NATHANIEL TUTHILL HAWKINS, New York, N. Y. (14536). Son
of Nathaniel Tuthill Hawkins and Eliza Homan; grandson of
David Hawkins and Prudence Tuthill ; great-grandson of Nathan
Tuthill, private Suffolk County, New York, Militia.
GEORGE FRANCIS HINE, Syracuse, N. Y. (15059). Son of Norman
Hine and Rosanna Handy Calkins; grandson of Josiah Hine and
Betsey Dakin ; great-grandson of Newton Hine, private Wadsworth's
Conn. Brigade; great2-grandson of Jared Hine, private Wadsworth's
Conn. Brigade.
ALBERT K. HISCOCK, Syracuse, N. Y. (15060). Son of Frank His-
cock and Cornelia King ; grandson of Richard Hiscock and Cynthia
Harris ; great-grandson of Richard Hiscock, private Ward's Mass.
Reg't.
JULIUS DENTON HODSKIN, Binghamton, N. Y. (15180). Son of
Albert A. Hodskin and Celina Johnson ; grandson of Cyrus John-
son and Abigail Wheeler; great-grandson of John Johnson, Captain
Conn. Continental troops.
CHARLES CARR HOFF, Morristown, N. J. ( 14935). Son of Esek W.
Hoff and Deborah Carr; grandson of Hartman Carr and Ann
Brock; great-grandson of James Carr, private New York troops, pen-
sioned.
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WARREN BREWSTER HOOKER, Fredonia, N. Y. (15200). Son of
John Hooker and Philena Waterman; grandson of John Hooker
and Huldah Moss ; great-grandson of Daniel Hooker, private Brooks'
Mass. Reg't.
DANIEL MILLER HOPPING, New York, N. Y. (14526). Son of Au-
gustus Stiles Hopping and Elizabeth Ann West ; grandson of Sam-
uel Miller Hopping and Rachel Lyon Howell; great-grandson of
Daniel Hopping and Martha Stiles ; great2-grandson of Samuel
Hopping, private Morris County, New Jersey, Militia.
HENRY JOSEPH HOWE, Otisco, N. Y. (15061). Son of Perley Howe
and Abigail Cowles ; grandson of Joseph Cady Howe and Tabitha
Rhoades; great-grandson of Perley Howe, Captain Fourth Conn.
Light Horse.
HENRY F. JACOB Y, New York, N. Y. (14936)- Son of Samuel R.
Jacoby and Julia A. Ball; grandson of Benjamin Ball and Clairisa
Dimmick ; great-grandson of John Dimmick, private Conn, troops,
pensioned.
CLAUDE WESLEY JESTER, New York, N. Y. (15372). Son of George
Taylor Jester and Alice Bates; grandson of Levi Jester and Dia-
dema McKinney ; great-grandson of Hampton and Mary McKinney
Clark; great2-grandson of John McKinney, Corporal and Scout,
South Carolina Continental troops.
HERBERT STEELE KELLOGG, New York, N. Y. (14727). Son of
Amos M. Kellogg and Lavinia Livingston Steele ; grandson of
Oliver Steele and Mary Augusta Livingston; great-grandson of
Moncrieffe Livingston and Frances Covert ; great2-grandson of
Peter R. Livingston, Colonel Tenth Albany County, New York,.
Militia.
JOSEPH AUGUSTUS KELLOGG, Glens Falls, N. Y. (14750). Son of
Charles Dor Kellogg and Mary Jane Baucus; grandson of Joseph
Baucus and Catharine E. Bryan; great-grandson of John Baucus
and Mariah Wetsel ; great'-grandson of George Wetsel, private Four-
teenth Albany County, New York, Militia ; great-grandson of Alex-
ander Bryan and Mary E. Fake ; great2-grandson of George Fake
(and Catharine Snyder), private Fourteenth Albany County, New-
York, Militia; great3-grandson of John Snyder, private Fourteenth
Albany County, New York, Militia.
EARL HAROLD KING, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (15193)- Son of
Almeron King and Emma Herrington; grandson of George Wash-
ington King and Elizabeth Abbie Earl Chase ; great-grandson of
Horace King and Clarissa Caple Durham ; great2-grandson of Ste-
phen King, private New York Militia.
ELBRIDGE OLIN KINNE, Syracuse, N. Y. (15062). Son of Elbridge
Kinne and Saphronia Young; grandson of Prentice Kinne and
Elizabeth Kinne ; great-grandson of Cyrius Kinne, private Sixth Al-
bany County, New York, Militia; grandson of Seth Young and
Elizabeth Crossett; great-grandson of John Young, Sergeant New
York troops, pensioned, also of John Crossett and Elizabeth Jack-
son; great2-grandson of Jeremiah Jackson, Lieutenant Fourth Mass.
Reg't.
ARTHUR BUSHNELL KINNE, Syracuse, N. Y. (14937). Son of
Mason P. Kinne and Mary Jane Spaulding; grandson of Prentice
Kinne and Elizabeth Kinne; great-grandson of Cyrius Kinne, priv-
ate Sixth Albany County, New York, Militia.
JAMES GIDEON KINNE, Fort Edward, N. Y. (15364). Son of Gideon
Ktnne and Sally Ann Taylor; grandson of Samuei- Taylor and
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Sara Pemberton; great-grandson of Patrick Grant Pemberton, pri-
vate Conn. Militia; grandson of Aaron Kinne; great-grandson of
Aaron Kinne, Chaplain at Fort Griswold, 1779.
LUCIUS MATLACK KINNE, Syracuse, N. Y. (14938). Son of Ansel
E. Kinne and Emma Merrick; grandson of Prentice Kinne and
Elizabeth Kinne ; great-grandson of Cyrius Kinne, private Sixth Al-
bany County, New York, Militia.
WILLIAM SHAW KITCHELL, Brooklyn, N. Y. (14728). Son of Ben-
jamin Kitchell and Mary Ann Shaw ; grandson of Josiah Kitchell
and Sarah Ball; great-grandson of Samuel Ball, Captain Morris
County, New Jersey, Militia.
CHARLES WELLINGTON LARMON, Salem, N. Y. ( 14537)- Son of
John Larmon and Laura F. King; grandson of John King and
Mary Rice ; great-grandson of Fenner King and Mary King ; great2-
grandson of John King (father of Fenner), Captain Berkshire
County, Mass., Militia, also of Hezekiah King (father of Mary),
private Mass. Militia; great-grandson of Hercules Rice and Mary
Dewey ; great2-grandson of Josiah Dewey, Sergeant Mass. troops.
JOHN VANCE LAUDERDALE, Brooklyn, N. Y. (14527). Son of Wal-
ter Elliott Lauderdale and Mary Ann Vance; grandson of John
Vance and Eve Roup; great-grandson of Kennedy Vance, private
New Jersey Militia.
JOHN LLOYD LEE, New York, N. Y. ( 14939)- Son of Samuel Porter
Lee and Rebecca Hall ; grandson of Robert Lee and Sarah Swern-
gen; great-grandson of Thomas Lee, private Seventh Maryland
Reg't.
WARNER MIFFLIN LEEDS, New York, N. Y. (15552). Son of Noah
Smith Leeds and Hannah Anne Starr; grandson of Warner Mif-
flin Leeds and Elizabeth Bateman ; great-grandson of Vincent
Leeds and Catherine Smith (Widow Carr) ; great2-grandson of Noah
Smiii/i, private Gloucester County, New Jersey, Militia.
WILLIAM BATEMAN LEEDS, New York, N. Y. (15371). Son of
Noah Smith Leeds and Hannah Ann Starr; grandson of Warner
Mifflin Leeds and Elizabeth Bateman ; great-grandson of Vincent
Leeds and Catherine Smith (Widow Carr) ; great-grandson of
Noah Smith, private Gloucester County, New Jersey, Militia.
FRANK H. LOUCKS, New York, N. Y. (14729). Son of Frank H.
Loucks and Emma Boyer; grandson of Alexander Hamilton
Loucks and Lydia Parent ; great-grandson of George G. Loucks and
Mary Gray ; great2-grandson of George Loucks, Lieutenant Second
Tryon County, New York, Militia, also of Samuel Gray, Adjutant
Second Tryon County, New York, Militia.
HERBERT C. LUDINGTON, Fulton, N. Y. (14528). Son of Matthew
B. Ludington and Sophia J. Paul; grandson of Alfred Paul and
Lovina Ann French; great-grandson of Benjamin Paul and Abi-
gail Carr; great2-grandson of John White Paul, Sergeant Topham's
Reg't, Rhode Island Foot.
GEORGE ARTHUR McLELLAN, Newark, N. J. (14738). Son of
George McLellan and Mary Elizabeth Wherren ; grandson of Moses
Wherren and Lurey Paul; great-grandson of William Wherren.
private, Scammon's Mass. Reg't.
GEORGE HUBBARD McLELLAN, East Orange, N. J. ( 14739)- Son
of George Arthur McLellan and Sarah Bigelow Broaders; grand-
son of George McLellan and Mary Elizabeth Wherren ; great-grand-
son of Moses Wherren and Lurey Paul ; great2-grandson of William
Wherren, private, Scammon's Mass. Reg't.
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DOUGLASS WALTER MABEE, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (14538)-
Son of Douglass W. Mabee and Florence L. West ; grandson of
George James Warner Mabee and Margaret TV Nostrand ; great-
grandson of Simon Mabee and Susannah Nexsen ; great2-grandson
of Johannes or Jan (and Alida Toll) Mabee, private Albany County,
New York, Militia; great3-grandson of Simon Toll, private Albany
County, New York, Militia.
DOUGLASS WILLIAMS MABEE, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (14529).
Son of George James Warner Mabee and Margaret Tiers Nostrand ;
grandson of Simon Mabee and Susannah Nexsen ; great-grandson of
Johannes or Jam, (and Alida Toll) Mabee, private Albany County,.
New York Militia ; great2-grandson of Simon Toll, private Albany
County, New York, Militia.
GEORGE WEST MABEE, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. ( 14539)- Son of
Douglass W. Mabee and Florence L. West; grandson of George
James Warren Mabee and Margaret Tiers Nostrand; great-grand-
son of Simon Mabee and Susannah Nexsen ; great2-grandson of Jo-
hannes or Jan (and Alida Toll) Mabee, private Albany County, New
York, Militia ; great3-grandson of Simon Toll, private Albany Coun-
ty, New York, Militia.
WILLIAM HARRISON MACE, Syracuse, N. Y. (15063). Son of
Ira Mace and Nancy Johnson ; grandson of Benjamin Mace and
Mary Ross ; great-grandson of Benjamin Mace, private Mass.
Militia.
JOHN MARSELLUS, Syracuse, N. Y. (14730). Son of Robert Mar-
sellus and Maria Onderkirk ; grandson of Peter Onderkirk and
Susan Maria Winne; great-grandson of John Evertson Winne.
and Follica Wemple; great2-grandson of Jacob Winne, Captain and
Commissary Albany County, New York, Militia.
FRANK WILLIAMS MILLER, New York, N. Y. (15182). Son of
Thomas Porter Miller and Eliza Emma Williams ; grandson of
Benjamin William Miller and Mercy Williams ; great-grandson
of John Williams and Mery Weeks; great2-grandson of Thomas
Weeks, Adjutant Tenth Mass. Line, Assistant Commissary of Issues.
EDWARD JUDSON MILLSPAUGH, Utica, N. Y. (15064). Son of
Isaac Little Millspaugh and Deborah Barrow Mundy; grandson
of Samuel Millspaugh and Dorothy Corwin; great-grandson of
Adam Millspaugh, private Second Ulster County, New York,
Militia.
JOSIAH SHERMAN MITCHELL, Brooklyn, N. Y. (15361). Son of
William Anderson Mitchell and Natalie Madeline Sayen ; grand-
son of Josiah Sherman Mitchell and Elizabeth Anderson ; great-
grandson of Minott Mitchell and Elizabeth Leeds Silliman ; great2-
grandson of Justus Mitchell and Martha Sherman; great' -grand-
son of Josiah Sherman, Chaplain Seventh Conn. Continental Line.
WILLIAM PERKINS MONTAGUE, New York, N. Y. (14940). Son
of Charles Augustus Montague and Anna C. Montague; grand-
son of Orlando Montague and Hannah Lord ; great-grandson of
David Montague and Sarah Clark; great2-grandson of Caleb Mon-
tague, Captain Hampshire County, Mass., Militia.
LOUIS DE LANCEY MUNGER, Saranac Inn, N. Y. (15365). Son of
Apollos Munger and Mary Jenney ; grandson of Eben B. Jenney
and Sarah Kelsey ; great-grandson of David Kelsey and Betsey
Merriam ; great2-grandson of David Merriam, private Mass. Troops.
IRVING O. NELLIS, Herkimer, N. Y. (15198). Son of George W.
Nellis and Malinda Witherstine ; grandson of David Wither-
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stine and Margaret $chell ; great-grandson of John Witherstine,
private Third New York Line.
ALBBERT E. NETTLETON, Syracuse, N. Y. (14741). Son of Ed-
ward Nettleton and Harriet Clark; grandson of Moses Clark and
Diana Judson; great-grandson of Ebenezer Clark, private Conn.
Militia.
HARRY E. NEWELL, Syracuse, N. Y. (15065). Son of Edward H.
Newell and Adelia Smith ; grandson of Harry Newell and Jerusha
Foote; great-grandson of Robert Newell, Jr., private Conn. Con-
tinental Line ; great2-grandson of Robert Newell, private Conn. Con-
tinental Line.
JAMES E. NEWELL, Syracuse, N. Y. (15066). Son of Edward H.
Newell and Adelia Smith; grandson of Harry Newell and Je-
rusha Foote; great-grandson of Robert Newell, Jr., private Conn.
Continental Line; great2-grandson of Robert Newell, private Conn.
Continental Line.
G. LOUIS NICHOLS, Hoboken, N. J. (15359). Son of Frank Nichols
and Mary Ann Barton; grandson of Liberty Nichols and Patty
Richardson ; great-grandson of Edmund Nichols and Sally Wilder ;
great2-grandson of Edmund Nichols, private Mass. Militia; grand-
son of Jedediah Barton and Mary Lathrop ; great-grandson of
Rufus Barton and Nancy Goddard ; great2-grandson of Jedediah
Barton, private Mass. Militia.
WALTER EDMOND NICHOLS, Hoboken, N. J. ( 15553)- Son of
Frank Nichols and Mary Ann Barton; grandson of Liberty
Nichols and Patty Richardson; great-grandson of Edmund Nich-
ols, Jr., and Sally Wilder; great2-grandson of Edmund Nichols, pri-
vate Mass. Militia ; grandson of Jedediah Barton and Mary Loth-
rop; great-grandson of Rufus Barton and Nancy Barton; great2-
grandson of Jedediah Barton, private Hampshire County, Mass.,
Militia.
ALSON B. OSTRANDER, New York, N. Y. (15183). Son of Alson
Ostrander and Harriet Arnold; grandson of Aaron Arnold and
Eliza Allen; great-grandson of Jonathan Arnold, private Ninth
Conn. Line, also of Amos Allen, private Mass. Continental Troops.
JAMES H. PARKER, New York, N. Y. (14189). (Supplemental.)
Son of Erastus Wells Parker and Emmeline Brown ; grandson of
Morris Brown and Maria Clarkson Smith; great-grandson of John
Smith and Mary Laird; great2-grandson of James Smith, private
First Penna. Line; great3-grandson of James Smith, Signer of the
Declaration of Independence; great-grandson of Perez Brown and
Rebecca English ; great2-grandson of Perez Brown, private Mass.
Militia, also of John Laird (and Sarah Finley), Major York County,
Penna., Militia; great3-grandson of John Finley, Major Fourth
Battalion York County, Penna., Militia.
HENRY GRISCOM PARSONS, Brooklyn, N. Y. (14941). Son of
Henry Parsons and Fannie Griscom; grandson of John Hoskins
Griscom and Henrietta Peale; great-grandson of Rembrandt Peale
and Eleanor M. Short ; great2-grandson of Charles W ills o 71 Peale,
Captain Fourth Penna. Foot.
WILLIAM S. PATTEN, New York, N. Y. (15369). Son of Jonathan
T. Patten and Ann Foster Swift ; grandson of Isaac Patten, private
Mass. Militia; great-grandson of Jonathan Swift and Ann Rob-
erdeau ; great2-grandson of Daniel Roberdeau, Brigadier-General
Penna. Militia.
WILBER S. PECK, Syracuse, N. Y. (14530). Son of Nathan Peck
and Polly Thompson; grandson of Stephen Northrup Peck and
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Lydia Phillips; great-grandson of John Peck and Sarah Northrup ;
great2-grandson of John Peck, private Putnam's Third Conn. Reg't.
WILLARD H. PECK, Syracuse, N. Y. (15067). Son of Dewitt Clin-
ton Peck and Salome Kinne; grandson of Prentice Kinne and
Elizabeth Kinne ; great-grandson of Cyrius Kinne, private Sixth
Albany County, New York, Militia.
WILLIAM R. PERKINS, Newburgh, N. Y. (15194)- Son of Richard
D. Perkins and Susan H. Purdy; grandson of John Purdy and
Julia Hutchings; great-grandson of Solomon Purdy, Lieutenant
Third Westchester County, New York, Militia.
GORMAN MILLER PIERCE, Binghamton, N. Y. (14942). Son of
Henry Miller Pierce and Mary Quimby Page; grandson of
Joshua Page and Keziah Stockbridge; great-grandson of Joseph
Stockbridge, private Mass. Troops.
EVAN STYLES POTTER, New York, N. Y. (15068). Son of Evan J.
Potter and Miranda Jane Swarts ; grandson of Samuel J. Potter
and Mary Cozzens; great-grandson of Edward Potter and Ann
Johnson ; great2-grandson of William Potter, Chief Justice of Wash-
ington County, Rhode Island.
HENRY W. POTTLE, Buffalo, N. Y. (15184). Son of Emory B. Pot-
tle and Catherine S. Pottle; grandson of Lorane Pottle and
Betsey Kibbe; great-grandson of Edward Kibbe (or Kibby), Ser-
geant Ninth Mass. Reg't.
HENRY ZACHARIAH PRATT, New York, N. Y. (15363). Son of
James Hyde Pratt and Sophie Hale Boyd; grandson of Harry
Pratt and Susan Cleveland ; great-grandson of James Pratt, pri-
vate S. B. Webb's Reg't Conn. Continental Infantry.
FRANK W. REDFIELD, Frankport, N. Y. (14541). Son of Darius B.
Redfield and Ervilla Sawyer; grandson of Theophilus Redfield
and Ruth Tuttle; great-grandson of James Redfield, Captain Fifth
Conn. Levies; grandson of Joseph Sawyer and Polly Harper;
great-grandson of John Harper, Lieutenant, Reed's New Hampshire
Reg't, also of Oliver Tuttle, private New Hampshire Militia, also
of James Sawyer, private New Hampshire Continental Troops.
FREDERICK PRATT REYNOLDS, U. S. A., Washington, D. C.
(14943). Son of George Gardiner Reynolds and Lucy Pratt;
grandson of Ransom Pratt and Sarah Alvord; great-grandson of
Daniel Ransom Pratt and Mary Russ Pratt; great2-grandson of
Daniel Pratt and Margaret Ransom; great3-grandson of Daniel
Pratt and Abigail Bigelow ; great4-grandson of Daniel Pratt, private
Conn. State Troops; great2-grandson of Abijah Pratt, father of
Mary Russ Pratt, Corporal Third Conn. Line.
CHARLES ALBERT RICHARDSON, Canandaigua, N. Y. (4383).
(Correction of National Register.) William Richardson, private
Rhode Island (not Conn.) Militia.
FREDERICK HENRY RICHARDSON, New York, N. Y. (14542).
Son of David Henry Richardson and Jane Amelia McKibbin;
grandson of Isaiah McKibbin and Jemima Lewis; great-grandson
of Leonard Lewis and Catherine Huffman; great2-grandson of
Thomas Lewis and Rachel Van Benschoten; great3-grandson of
Elias Van Benschoten, Major New York Continental Troops.
WITHINGTON ROBINSON, New York, N. Y. (6356). Son of Ed-
ward Breck Robinson and Julia Barbour; grandson of Stephen
Robinson and Hannah Withington ; great-grandson of Ebenezer
Withington, Assistant, Boylston's Company of Artificers, private
Mass. Line, pensioned ; grandson of John Barbour and Jane Moses
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Morse; great-grandson of John Barbour and Anna Wi]son; great--
grandson of Nathaniel Wilson, Second Lieutenant Cumberland
County, Mass., Militia.
WILLIAM LACY RUMSEY, Buffalo, N. Y. (15069). Son of Homer
L. Rumsey and Annie Rogers; grandson of Lacy Rumsey and
Eleanor Lockwood ; great-grandson of Joseph Rumsey and Sally-
Evans ; great2-grandson of David Rumsey, Captain Albany County,
New York, Militia ; great-grandson of Homer Lockwood and Sally
Benedict ; great2-grandson of Isaac Lockwood, private Conn. Troops.
HENRY BURNHAM SAVAGE, New York, N. Y. (i473i)- Son of
Cornelius Savage and Ellen Burnham ; grandson of Josiah Savage
and Mary Savage ; great-grandson of Josiah Savage, private Conn.
and Rhode Island Continental Line.
REED CASE SCHERMERHORN, Buffalo, N. Y. (14926). Son of Ber-
nard Freeman Schermerhorn and Josephine Case; grandson of
John Freeman Schermerhorn and Catherine Yates; great-grand-
son of Christopher Peter Yates, Major First New York Line,
GEORGE F. SMALL, Herkimer, N. Y. ( 14543). Son of George Small
and Lucy Witherstine ; grandson of Abraham D. Witherstine
and Eliza Folts ; great-grandson of John Witherstine, private Third
New York Line.
FREDERICK WALTER SMITH, Syracuse, N. Y. (15185). Son of
John Lewis Smith and Rose Walter; grandson of Horace Wal-
ter and Phebe Morse ; great-grandson of Asaph Morse, private
Berkshire County, Mass., Militia.
WILLIAM VOLNEY SMITH, Syracuse, N. Y. (15186). Son of Will-
iam Henry Smith and Anna Bray ; grandson of Archibald Smith
and Polly Briggs; great-grandson of Jonathan Smith, Captain
Rhode Island Militia, also of Joseph Briggs, Captain Vermont
Militia.
JOSEPH ANDERSON SOWDON, Yonkers, N. Y. (15370). Son of
George Harris Sowdon and Eliza Tweed Gildersleeve ; grandson of
Thomas Jefferson Gildersleeve and Dorothy Hamilton ; great-
grandson of George Hamilton, private First New York Reg't.
RICHARD HEZEKIAH STEVENS, Syracuse, N. Y. (15070). Son of
William Henry Stevens and Ruby Ann Bishop ; grandson of
Slyvanus Bishop, private Mass. Line, pensioned.
GILES HEATH STILWELL, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14944)- Son of Philip
Taber Stilwell and Lucy M. Heath; grandson of Asa Heath and
Mercy Heath ; great-grandson of Aaron Heath, private Mass. Mil-
itia.
CHARLES L. STONE, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14547). Son of Samuel Hurl-
but Stone and Rhoda A. Butterfield ; grandson of Isaac Stone
and Lydia Hurlbut; great-grandson of Samuel Hurlbut, First
Lieutenant Nineteenth Conn. Reg?t.
CHARLES ARTHUR STOVER, Plainfield, N. J. (14544). Son of
Rowland M. Stover and Caroline Francis Howard; grandson of
Nathan Howard, Jr., and Frances Taylor Doty ; great-grandson
of William Doty and Sarah Rosekrans ; great2-grandson of Sam-
uel Doty, private Conn. Continental Infantry, Ensign Conn. State
Detached Militia.
PHILIP FREEMAN SWART, Buckport, N. Y. (14945). Son of Will-
iam Derck Swart and Rosetta Chamberlain ; grandson of Derek
Swart, Delegate New York Provincial Congress, 1775.
FRANK E. TAFT, Rochester. N. Y. ( 14545). Son of William Barton
Taft and Sarah M. Ormsby; grandson of Henry Taft and Betsy
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 309
Tickner; great-grandson of Job Taft and Elizabeth Brown; great2-
grandson of Silas Taft and Elizabeth Gruff; great3-grandson of
Stephen Taft, Second Lieutenant, Chapin's Company, Uxbridge,
Mass., Minute Men.
RALPH TOUSEY, New York, N. Y. (15187). Son of John Ewart
Tousey and Renelcha Elderkin; grandson of John Elderkin and
Renelcha Hallock; great-grandson of John Elderkin and Martha
Smith; great2-grandson of Joshua Elderkin and Elizabeth Newton;
great3-grandson of John Elderkin, Quartermaster Second Conn. Line.
MELVILLE EUGENE TRUX, Stamford, Conn. ( 14734)- Son of John
Jackson Trux and Elizabeth Bicknell; grandson of William
Trux and Lydia Fuller; great-grandson of William Trux (or
Trucks), Ensign First German Battalion Continental Troops.
IRVING G. VAUN, Syracuse, N. Y. (14531). Son of Samuel R. Vaun
and Catherine H. Goodwin; grandson of Samuel Vaun and Mary
Bond; great-grandson of Samuel Vaugn, private New Jersey Mil-
itia; grandson of Joseph Goodwin and Huth Stout; great-grandson
of Richard Goodzvin, private Fourth Conn. Light Horse.
WILLIAM MITCHELL WADSWORTH, New York, N. Y. ( 14743)-
Son of William Cooke Wadsworth and Anna Mitchell ; grandson
of James C. Wadsworth and Sally Cooke; great-grandson of
Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth Hoyt ; great2-grandsan of Joseph
Plat\ Cooke, Colonel Sixteenth Conn. Militia.
ALBERT H. WALKER, New York, N. Y. (11991). (Supplemental.)
Son of Sawyer Walker and Malinda Gill ; grandson of Jesse Wal-
ker and Prudence Sawyer ; great-grandson of Thomas Sawyer, pri-
vate Mass. Militia, Captain Vermont Minute Men.
JOHN EDWIN WALKER, New York, N. Y. (11992). (Supplemental.)
Son of Edwin Sawyer Walker and Harriet Weeks; grandson of
Sawyer Walker and Malinda Gill ; great-grandson of Jesse Wal-
ker and Prudence Sawyer ; great2-grandson of Thomas Sawyer, pri-
vate Mass. Militia, Captain Vermont Minute Men.
WARNER ESMOND LEE WARD, Brooklyn, N. Y. (14571). Son of
William Lee Ward and Geraldine Laura Amelia Warner; grand-
son of Hiram Ward and Delilah H. Esmond ; great-grandson of
John Esmond and Abigail Foster; great2-grandson of Parla (or
Parley) Foster, private Mass. Troops, pensioned.
HOB ART WEED, Buffalo, N. Y. (15197). Son of Thaddeus Weed
and Louisa Chapin; grandson of Cyrenius Chapin and Sylvia
Burnham ; great-grandson of Caleb Chapin, Captain Fourth Com-
pany Hampshire County, Mass., Reg't; grandson of Ananias Weed,
Sergeant Mass. Militia.
BYRD WILSON WENMAN, New York, N. Y. (14732). Son of James
Wilson Wenman and Carrie Byrd; grandson of William Clin-
ton Byrd and Sarah Jane Rhodes; great-grandson of Charles
Byrd and Mary Geller; great2-grandson of John Byrd and Esther
Ely; great3-grandson of George Ely, Colonel Third Hunterdon
County, New Jersey, Reg't.
JOHN FRANKLIN WHITE, Elmira, N. Y. (15360). Son of Robert
Gray White and Sarah Bache; grandson of James White and
Charlotte Weitzel ; great-grandson of John Weitzel, Member Com-
mittee of Safety of Northumberland County, Penna., Member of
Provincial Convention of 1776.
LINNAEUS D. WITHERILL, Union, N. Y. (14946). Son of Amos A.
Witherill and Hannah Mersereau ; grandson of Laurence Mer-
sereau and Hannah Christopher; great-grandson of Joshua Mer-
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sereau, Major, Commissary-General, Member New York Provincial
Assembly.
AUSTIN C WOOD, Syracuse, N. Y. (15195)- Son of Asahel Wood
and Louisa Ann Clap ; grandson of David Wood, Jr., private Mass.
Continental Troops, pensioned.
EZRA WOODRUFF, Brooklyn, N. Y. (15071). Son of Ezra Woodruff
and Catherine Hagan ; grandson of Enos Woodruff, private Essex
County, New Jersey, Militia.
HENRY REXFORD WOODRUFF, Windsor, N. Y. (15189). Son of
Henry Rexford Woodruff and Mildred Maupin ; grandson of
Simeon Woodruff and Phimelia Rexford; great-grandson of Enos
Benton Rexford and Achsah Warner; great2-grandson of Benjamin
Warner, private Second Conn. Artillery.
HUGH HIRAM WOODWORTH, Mayfield, N. Y. (15362). Son of
William G. Woodworth, Sergeant Sixteenth Albany County, New
York, Militia, prisoner in Montreal, pensioned.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WYNKOOP, Syracuse, N. Y. ( 14735)- Son
of Jonathan G. Wynkoop and Mary Judson Hawley; grandson
of Peter Silvester Wynkoop and Margaret Gosman ; great-grand-
son of John Cornelius Wynkoop and Lydia Silvester; great2-
grandson of Cornelius C. Wynkoop, Captain Third Ulster County,
New York, Militia; grandson of David Austin Hawley and Mary
Judson ; great-grandson of William Judson and Esther Barker ;
great2-grandson of Timothy Judson, Captain Conn. Militia.
WILLIAM BAXTER YOUNG, Jr., Rochester, N. Y. (15190). Son of
William Baxter Young and Nancy Catherine Littlebrant; grand-
son of Samuel Littlebrant and Margaret Lampman ; great-grand-
son of Peter Lampman and Nancy Wagner ; great2-grandson of
George Wagner, private New York Militia, wounded, pensioned.
OHIO SOCIETY.
THOMAS McARTHUR ANDERSON, U. S. Army, State Soldiers'
Home, Ohio (6701). Son of William Marshall Anderson and
Eliza McArthur; grandson of Richard Clough Anderson, Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Virginia Continental Line.
FRANK LIVINGSTON BAIRD, Toledo, Ohio (14349). Son of Ed-
ward Livingston Baird and Mary Thompson; grandson of Au-
gustus Monfort Thompson and Ann Maria Slason; great-grand-
son of Francis Slason and Mary Gordon ; great2-grandson of Na-
thaniel Slason, Lieutenant Ninth Conn. Militia.
ASHBEL GREEN BEER, Ashland, Ohio (14879)- Son of Thomas
Beer and Margaret Cameron; grandson of Thomas Beer, private
Penna. Troops, pensioned.
JOHN MITCHELL BINGHAM, Lima, Ohio ( 14343)- Son of John M.
Bingham and Wilhelmina Baker; grandson of Thomas Bingham
and Mary Steel Mitchell; great-grandson of James Mitchell and
Catherine Nigh ; great2-grandson of James Mitchell and Mary
Steel McLean; great3-grandson of John Steel, Captain Cumberland
County, Penna., Association and Militia.
BENJAMIN LESTER BO WEN, Columbus, Ohio (14878). Son of
Benjamin F. Bowen and Mary Frances Bangs; grandson of
Luke Bangs and Frances Caroline Hebbard; great-grandson of
Jeptha Hebbard and Mary Johnson; great2-grandson of Rufus John-
son, private Fourth Conn. Line; great3-grandson of Obadiah John-
son, Colonel Twenty-first Conn. Militia.
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CORNELIUS A. BROUSE, Akron, Ohio. (14889). Son of William
Brouse and Rebecca Baughman ; grandson of Michael Brouse,
Jr., and Susannah Witt; great-grandson of Michael Brouse, pri-
vate Penna. Militia, pensioned.
JOHN JONAS CHESTER, Columbus, Ohio ( 14345)- Son of Austin
Eaton Chester and Delia McCune ; grandson of Simeon Ches-
ter, Jr., and Anna Higby; great-grandson of Simeon _ Chester, pri-
vate Continental Army; received grant of land in Ohio.
WILLIAM LINUS CLARK, Hamilton, Ohio ( 14333). Son of Linus
Royal Clark and Mary Cave; grandson of Robert Clark and
Hannah Lanning; great-grandson of Orin Clark and Patty Holli-
day; great'-grandson of James Clark, Second Lieutenant, Pomeroy's
Mass. Reg't.
TRENTON L. COLE, Collinwood, Ohio (14880). Son of David E. Cole
and Mary Rogers; grandson of David Cole and Amanda Ferris;
great-grandson of Andrew Ferris and Aner Kniffin; great-grand-
son of Reuben Ferriss, First Major Dutchess County, New York,
Militia.
THOMAS DWIGHT CONE, Toledo, Ohio (14348). Son of Calvin
Cone and Adaline Dwight; grandson of Lester Cone and Stella
Humphrey ; great-grandson of George Humphery, fifer Conn.
Troops.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER CRAIG, Shreve, Ohio (14888). Son of John-
ston Brown Craig and Jane Thompson ; grandson of William
Craig; great-grandson of Andrew Craig; great'-grandson of Sam-
uel Craig, Lieutenant Westmoreland County, Penna., Militia.
JOHN LINCOLN DICKEY, Columbus, Ohio (14887). Son of John
Parsons Alexander Dickey and Hannah Caroline Peterson;
grandson of Martin Peterson and Elizabeth Coyner; great-grand-
son of John Peterson and Mary Harper; great2-grandson of John
Martin Peterson, private Twelfth Virginia Reg't.
CHARLES ALEXANDER GATES, Massillon, Ohio (14882). Son of
Nahum Ball Gates and Sarah Monteith ; grandson of John Gates,
private Middlesex County, Mass., Militia.
WILLIAM NAHUM GATES, Cleveland, Ohio (14881). Son of Na-
hum Ball Gates and Sarah Monteith ; grandson of John Gates,
private Middlesex County, Mass., Militia.
HENRY BARTLETT HAWLEY, Cleveland, Ohio (14336). Son of
Charles Barzilla Hawley and Lucy Chapin ; grandson of Darius
Chapin and Elmira Hoard ; great-grandson of Japhet Chapin and
Betsy Sprague; grear'-grandson of Japhet Chapin and Lucy Ware;
great3-grandson of Nathan Chapin, Sergeant Mass. Militia.
MOULTON HOUK, Toledo, Ohio (2477)- (Supplemental.) Son of
Harrison W. Houk and Catherine Johnson ; grandson of John
Houk and Elizabeth Moulton ; great-grandson of Joseph Moulton
and Mary Elizabeth Johnson ; great2-grandson of John Johnson,
Ensign Mass. Militia, Captain in Guard Service ; great2-grandson of
Stephen Moulton and Eleanor Converse ; great8-grandson of Josiafo
Converse, First Lieutenant Conn. Continental troops.
CHARLES HOWARD, Cleveland, Ohio (14335). Son of Joseph How-
ard and Mary Woodward; grandson of Joseph Howard and Han-
nah Pollard ; great-grandson of Nathan Howard, private, Whit-
comb's Mass. Reg't.
FRANK WILMARTH INGALLS, Bryan, Ohio (14893). Son of David
D. Ingalls and Laura W. Northrup ; grandson of Isaac W. North-
rup and Maria Brown; great-grandson of Nicholas Brown and
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Dolly Wilmarth ; great2-grandson of Shuball Wilmarth, Captain Sec-
ond Berkshire County, Mass., Regulars.
JOHN THOMAS KIRKWOOD, Cleveland, Ohio (14890). Son of
Thomas Kirkwood and Rebecca Ann Byerly; grandson of John
Byerly ; great-grandson of Jacob Byerly, private Thirteenth Vir-
ginia Militia, pensioned.
ISAAC FOSTER MACK, Sandusky, Ohio (14337). Son of Isaac Fos-
ter Mack and Clarissa Beebe; grandson of Sewell Tiffany Mack
and Ann Cady; great-grandson of Jedediah Cady, private First
Conn. Reg't.
ALBERT W. MAYERS, Cleveland, Ohio ( 14339)- Son of Louis Meiers
and Sarah Wheaton ; grandson of Anson Wheaton and Rebecca
Cook ; great-grandson of Jonathan Wheaton, private Conn. Conti-
nental Line.
CHARLES R. MAYERS, Columbus, Ohio (14341). Son of Louis May-
ers and Sarah Wheaton; grandson of Anson Wheaton and Re-
becca Cook; great-grandson of Jonathan Wheaton, private Conn.
Line.
OTTO MILLER, Cleveland, Ohio. (14885). Son of James H. Miller and
Sophia M. Hensch; grandson of Joseph K. Miller and Margaret
Spangler; great-grandson of Michael Spangler and Elizabeth
Miller ; great2-grandson of Michael Spangler, private York County,
Penna., Militia.
SYLVESTER CYRUS NOBLE, Columbus, Ohio. ( 14344- ) Son of Alon-
zo Miletus Noble and Elizabeth Stone ; grandson of Sylvester
Drake Noble and Pamela Ann Wood; great-grandson of Daniel
Noble and Lucinda Drake; great2-grandson of Thaddeas Noble,
Gunsmith, Captain New York Militia.
HARRY OLMSTED, Columbus, Ohio. (14332). Son of Charles H.
Olmsted and Elizabeth Broderick; grandson of Philo H. Olm-
sted and Sarah Phillips ; great-grandson of Francis Olmsted, private
Conn. Line, pensioned.
WILLIAM CHENEY PARSONS, Akron, Ohio. (14334). Son of Ed-
ward Parsons and Clementina Janes ; grandson of Peleg Cheney
(and Patty Coy) Janes, private Mass. troops; great-grandson of Wil-
liam Jones, private, Robinson's Mass. Reg't.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS POLAND, Columbus, Ohio. ( 14347). Son of
Thomas Poland and Elenora Duncan ; grandson of Samuel Poland,
private Penna. troops.
CHARLES OLIVER PROBST, Columbus, Ohio. (14346). Son of Wil-
liam B. Probst and Martha Grant ; grandson of Oliver Grant and
Mary Jones ; great-grandson of Samuel Grant and Hannah Davis ;
great2-grandson of John Grant, Captain "Green Mountain Boys,"
Quartermaster, Jackson's Additional Continental Reg't.
CHARLES RANSOM PUTNAM, Newburg, Ohio. (14886). Son of
William Henry Putnam and Rhoda Burgess ; grandson of Thomas
Burgess and Kathryn Quick Winfield; great-grandson of Abraham
WinHeld, private Weiserfel's New York Reg't ; grandson of Charles
R. Putnam and Sarah Shaw ; great2-grandson of Darling Shaw,
private, Sproat's Mass. Reg't.
THOMAS HUGH RICKETTS, Columbus, Ohio. (13342). Son of Robert
F. Ricketts and Julianna Thistle; grandson of Benjamin Ricketts
and Nancy Taylor; great-grandson of John Taylor, private Conn.
Light Horse; grandson of Thomas Thistle and Julianna Cresap ;
great-grandson of Daniel Cresap, Jr., Lieutenant Maryland Rifles;
great2-grandson of Daniel Cresap and Ruth V. Swearingen ; great8-
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grandson of Thomas Cresap, Captain "Sons of Liberty," Member
Committee of Safety.
RICHARD H. ROBINSON, Philadelphia, Pa. (14883). Son of George F.
Robinson and Mary A. Gillis; grandson of John Gillis and Lucia
Harris; great-grandson of Samuel D. Harris and Lucy Kent;
great2-grandson of Zenas Kent, private Fourth Conn. Line and
Eighteenth Militia.
FRANK TALLMADGE, Columbus, Ohio. (13142). (Supplemental). Son
of Theodore Wood Tallmadge and Ellen Brasee; grandson of
Darius Tallmadge and Sarah Wood ; great-grandson of Josiah Tall-
madge, private Ninth Albany County, New York, Militia.
FINDLEY D. TORRENCE, Xenia, Ohio, (14340). Son of David Tor-
rence and Ann Ingram Stewart; grandson of John Torrence,
Sergent First Battalion Cumberland County Penna. Militia, pen-
sioned.
FRANCIS WILLCOX TREAD WAY, Cleveland, Ohio. (14338). Son of
Augustin R. Treadway and Mary Louisa Mansfield ; grandson of
William L. Mansfield and Elizabeth R. Bradley; great-grandson
of William Mansfield and Sarah Oakes ; great2-grandson of Will-
iam Mansfield, Lieutenant Conn. Militia.
CHARLES F. TREADWAY, Cleveland, Ohio. (14884). Son of Augustin
R. Treadway and Mary Louise Mansfield ; grandson of William L.
Mansfield and Elizabeth R. Bradley; great-grandson of William
Mansfield and Sarah Oakes ; great2-grandson of William Mamsiield,
Lieutenant Conn. Militia.
GEORGE HENRY TWISS, Columbus, Ohio. (11060). Son of Payo
Twiss and Elizabeth Evans; grandson of Eliab Evans and Eliza-
beth Nichols; great-grandson of Andrew Nichols, private New
Hampshire Continental troops.
ALVIN M. WOOLSON, Toledo, Ohio. (14350). Son of Ira K. Woolson
and Arietta Mansfield; grandson of Elijah Woolson and Rebekah
Batchellor; great-grandson of Nehemiah Batchellor and Lucy
Hayward ; great2-grandson of Nehemiah Batchellor, Lieutenant Mid-
dlesex County, Mass., Militia.
OREGON SOCIETY.
HERBERT B. AUGUR, Portland, Oregon. (12874). Son of William
Chambers Augur and Julia Caroline Bassett; grandson of George
La Fayette Augur and Jane Chambers; great-grandson of James
Augur and Almyra Ford ; great2-grandson of Hezekiah Augur, pri-
vate Second Company Governor's Foot Guards of Conn.
M. C. GEORGE, Portland, Oregon. (7358). Son of Presley George and
Mahala Nickerson; grandson of Jesse George, private Virginia
troops, pensioned ; grandson of Hugh Nickerson and Rebecca
Blanchard ; great-grandson of Hugh Nickerson, private, Winslow's
Reg't. Mass. Coast Guards.
FREDERICK STANLEY DUNN, Eugene, Oregon .(12873). Son of
Francis Berrian Dunn and Ann Celia Christian; grandson of
Jonathan Dunn and Irena Clark; great-grandson of Beracha
Dunn and Mary German; great2-grandson of Jonathan Dunn, Cap-
tain First Battalion New Jersey Militia ; grandson of Daniel R.
Christian and Catherine Etnyre; great-grandson of Daniel Chris-
tian and Christine Ernsperger; great2-grandson of Daniel Christian,
private Penna. troops, pensioned.
AMEDEE M. SMITH, Portland, Oregon. (12875). Son of Amedee M.
Smith and Mary Ellen Speelman ; grandson of Freeman Smith
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and Margaret Hilterbrand ; great-grandson of James Freeman
Smith and Candacy Smith; great2-grandson of Isaac Smith, Colonel
First Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Militia.
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY.
CHARLES W. BIER, Pittsburg, Pa. (14458). Son of John Bier and
Mary Decker; grandson of Michael Decker and Mary Stoner;
great-grandson of Augustus Stoner and Sarah Withington ; great2-
grandson of Peter Withington, Captain Twelfth Penna. Reg't.
MATTHEW BIGGER, Pittsburg, Pa. (14461). Son of James Bigger
and Evaline Hamill ; grandson of John Bigger, private Fourth Bat-
talion Cumberland County Penna. Associators.
ALBERT BISSELL, Pittsburg, Pa. ( 14453). Son of William S. Bissell
and Eliza S. Wilson; grandson of John K. Wilson and Maria
Shields ; great-grandson of David Shields and Eliza Leet ; grear-
grandson of Daniel Leet, Brigade-Major, Virginia troops.
HARRY BLYNN, Philadelphia, Pa. (8750). Great-grandson of Ozias (not
Ozras) Goodwin, Ensign Conn. Volunteers. (Correction of Na-
tional Register.)
THOMAS BUNTING BLYNN, Tioga, Pa. (15253). Son of Michael
Blynn and Eliza A. Richardson; grandson of Henry Blynn and
Lydia Julia Goodwin ; great-grandson of Micah Goodwin and Sallie
Clark ; great2-grandson of Ozias Goodwin, Ensign Conn. Volunteers.
JOHN M. BUCHANAN, Beaver, Pa. (14464). Son of Thomas Chal-
mers Buchanan and Eliza A. Mayhew; grandson of John May-
hew and Elizabeth Jackson; great-grandson of Richard Mayhew,
private Third Battalion New Jersey Continental Line; grandson of
John Buchanan and Margaret Chambers; great-grandson of
James Buchanan, private, Porter's Battalion Penna. Infantry.
A HORNE BURCHFIELD, Pittsburg, Pa. ( 14454)- Son of Albert P.
Burchfield and Sarah McWhinney; grandson of Robert Cochran
Burchfield and Susan Rebecca Burchfield ; great-grandson of Adam
Burchfield and Mary Cochran ; great2-grandson of Samuel Coch-
ran and Mary Sherer; great3-grandson of Joseph Sherer, Captain
Dauphin County, Penna., Associators.
ALBERT P. BURCHFIELD, Pittsburg, Pa. (14456). Son of Robert
Cochran Burchfield and Susan Rebecca Burchfield; grandson of
Adam Burchfield and Mary Cochran ; great-grandson of Samuel
Cochran and Mary Sherer; great2-grandson of Joseph Sherer, Cap-
tain Dauphin County, Penna., Associators.
ARGYLE CAMPBELL, Pittsburg, Pa. (14462). Son of William Pendle-
ton Campbell and Nannie Cochrane; grandson of Patrick Henry
Cochrane and Mary Janet Meaux; great-grandson of William
Cochrane and Mildred Meriweather Syme; great2-grandson of John
Syme and Sally Overton ; great3-grandson of Joseph Syme, Captain
Tenth Virginia Reg't.
LLOYD JEWETT DAVIS, Pittsburg, Pa. (14451). Son of Lester M.
Davis and Adelaide L. Jewett; grandson of Mial Davis and Har-
riet M. Sherburne; great-grandson of Mial Davis and Lucy
Hutchins ; great2-grandson of Thaddeus Davis and Bridget Wright :
greaf-grandson of Barnabas Davis, private Fifth Mass. Foot.
JAMES HARVEY DUNLEVY, Dravosburg, Pa. (15256). Son of Jehu
Dunlevy and Mary McKee ; grandson of Hugh McKee and Cath-
erine Lutz ; great-grandson of John McKee, private Penna. Contin-
ental Line, pensioned. ,
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CLARENCE JAMES FLEMING, Pittsburg, Pa. (14460). Son of Robert
James Fleming and Harriet DuShane ; grandson of Joseph Towns-
end DuShane and Jane Smith ; great-grandson of Jonathan Smith,
Lieutenant Virginia Line.
EDWARD McKEE GOLDEN, Pittsburg, Pa. (15255). Son of John
Golden and Frances Elizabeth McKee; grandson of Edward Mc-
Kee and Elizabeth Thompson Karns ; great-grandson of James Mc-
Kee and Mary Cox ; great2-grandson of Hugh McKee, Second Lieu-
tenant Cumberland County, Penna., Militia.
HARRY ALVAN HALL, Pittsburg, Pa. (14470). Son of Benjamin Mc-
Dowell Hall and Susan Geary; grandson of John Geary and
Juliana Carrier; great-grandson of Anthony Carner, Sergeant First
North Carolina Reg't, private Penna. Line, pensioned.
JULIAN THEODORE HAMMOND, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. (14460). Son
of Julian Theodore Hammond and Matilda Read; grandson of
Moses Winchester Hammond and Anna O'Brist; great-grandson
of Thomas (and Sarah Winchester) Hammond, private Mass. Mi-
litia; great2-grandson of Elhanan Winchester, Recognized Patriot of
Brookline, Mass., lent money to aid the war.
FRED READER HERTZOG, Pittsburg, Pa. ( 14455)- Son of Oliver
Gans Hertzog and Eleanor M. Reader; grandson of Francis
Reader and Eleanor Bentley Smith ; great-grandson of James Agnew
Smith and Martha Wallace; great2-grandson of William Wallace,
private Penna. Flying Camp and Frontier Rangers.
SAMUEL LINSMORE HUBLEY, Pittsburg, Pa. (14466). Son of
George W. Hubley and Fanny McAllister ; grandson of Samuel
Hubley and Jane McCord; great-grandson of Bernard Hubley
and Anna Maria Hubley ; great2-grandson of Bernard Hubley, Lieu-
tenant Penna. German Reg't.
ULYSSES GRANT HUBLEY, Pittsburg, Pa. (14465). Son of George
W. Hubley and Fanny McAllister; grandson of Samuel Hubley
and Jane McCord; great-grandson of Bernard Hubley and Anna
Maria Hubley ; great2-grandson of Bernard Hubley, Lieutenant
Penna. German Reg't.
GEORGE F. HUNTINGTON, Philadelphia, Pa. (15258). Son of An-
drew B. Huntington and Jane Eliza Huntington; grandson of Jo-
seph Huntington and Eunice Sarew ; great-grandson of Andrew
Huntington and Lucy Coit; great2-grandson of Jabez Huntington,
Major-General Conn. Militia.
WILLIAM GILBERT IRWIN, Pittsburg, Pa. (14475). Son of John W.
Irwin and Elize A. Grove ; grandson of Benjamin Grove and Mary
Aukney; great-grandson of Jacob Grove and Margaret Parke;
great2-grandson of Zebulon Parke, Sergeant New Jersey Line, pen-
sioned.
THOMAS C. JOHNSON, Pittsburg, Pa. (14457)- Son of John C. John-
son and Fannie A. Johnson ; grandson of Cyrus Johnson and Abi-
gail Johnson ; great-grandson of John Johnson, Captain Conn. Con-
tinental troops, pensioned.
ROBERT McWHA LEE, Pittsburg, Pa. (14463). Son of Albert Gra-
ham Lee and Ella McWha; grandson of William McMillen Lee
and Caroline Patterson; great-grandson of William Patterson,
private Lancaster County, Penna., Militia.
WILLIAM THOMAS LINDSEY, Pittsburg, Pa. (14472). Son of James
Evans Lindsey and Mary Harris Pancoast; grandson of Thomas
Lindsey and Permelia Lindsey; great-grandson of John Lindsey
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and Martha Guthrie; great2-grandson of Samuel Lindsey, First
Lieutenant Penna. Flying Camp, pensioned.
WILLIAM MacDONALD, Philadelphia, Pa. (15254). Son of William
S. MacDonald and Elizabeth Wynne; grandson of Samuel C.
Wynne and Phoebe Sharp; great-grandson of Thomas Wynne,
Lieutenant Penna. Flying Camp; great-grandson of Delany Sharp,
Marine Penna. Navy.
ANDREW AVORY NYE, North Sewickley, Pa. (14471). Son of Michael
Barnett Nye and Anna Maxamelia Mace; grandson of Andrew
Avory Nye and Isabella McFarland; great-grandson of Michael
Nye and Anne Pearsall ; great2-grandson of Sampson Pearsall, pri-
vate Penna. Troops, pensioned.
JOHN JASPER THOMPSON PENNEY, Bellevue, Pa. (15251). Son of
John Penny and Rebecca Culler ; grandson of William Penny and
Martha Sill; great-grandson of John Penney, private, Dagget's
Reg't. Mass. Militia.
WILLIAM POLLOCK, Kittanning, Pa. (15259)- Son of Charles Pol-
lock and Ann Stewart; grandson of William Pollock and Sally
Fruit; great-grandson of Robert (and Katherine McClure) Fruit,
private Penna. Regulars ; great2-grandson of Richard McClure, Ser-
geant Penna. Militia.
ADIN L. SAILOR, Swissvale, Pa. (14452). Son of George Sailor and
Sophia Otto ; grandson of George Sailor and Catherine Wise ;
great-grandson of John Sailor and Susan Sailor; great2-grandson
of Matthias Sailor, Captain Cumberland County, Penna., Militia.
ROBERT SAMPLE SMITH, Pittsburg, Pa. (14467). Son of Robert J.
Smith and Sarah Crawford; grandson of John Crawford and Mary
Sample; great-grandson of James Sample, Captain Third Cumber-
land County, Penna., Militia.
JAMES C. TEBBETTS, Pittsburg, Pa. (14459). Son of Clinton H.
Tebbetts and Kate Curry; grandson of James Andrew Curry and
Elizabeth Porter Lewis ; great-grandson of James Curry and Cather-
ine Stagg ; great2-grandson of Daniel Stagg and Mary Conover ;
great3-grandson of James Stagg, private Morris County, New Jer-
sey, Militia.
LEWIS CLARK WALKINSHAW, Greensburg, Pa. (15252). Son of
Hugh Wilson Walkinshaw and Lottie Ann Ralston; grandson
of Lewis Waltemyer Ralston and Nancy Sears ; great-grandson of
Andrew Ralston and Fanny Hesser; great2-grandson of Andrew
Ralston, private Penna. Rifles and Foot.
WILLIAM ADDISON WAY, Pittsburg, Pa. (15257). Son of John
Way, Jr., and Catherine E. Wilson; grandson of John K. Wil-
son and Maria Shields ; great-grandson of David Shields and Eliza
Leet; great2-grandson of Daniel Leet, Brigade-Major Virginia Con-
tinental troops.
CLARENCE PRYOR WYNNE, Philadelphia, Pa. (14468). Son of
Thomas Wynne and Sarah L. Millar; grandson of Joseph Sharp
Wynne and Elizabeth Matlack; great-grandson of Samuel C.
Wynne and Phcebe Sharp; great2-grandson of Thomas Wynne,
Lieutenant Penna. Flying Camp, also of Delany Sharp, Marine
Penna. Navy.
RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY.
ERNEST MERLE BIXBY, Providence, R. I. (14238). Son of Moses
Homans Bixby and Laura A. Gage; grandson of Stephen Gage
and Olive Bradford; great-grandson of Abel Gage, private, Stark's
New Hampshire Reg't, pensioned.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 3r7
EDWARD IBARRA BROWNELL, Bristol, R. I. (14239). Son of
Charles DeWolf Brownell and Henrietta Knowlton Angell;
grandson of Pardon Brownell and Lucia Emilia DeWolf; great-
grandson of Sylvester Brownell, Sergeant Mass. troops, pensioned.
ERNEST HENRY BROWNELL, Bristol, R. I. (14240) Son of Charles
DeWolf Brownell and Henrietta Knowlton Angell; grandson of
Pardon Brownell and Lucia Emilia DeWolf; great-grandson of
Sylvester Brownell, Sergeant Mass. troops, pensioned.
WALTER HAMILTON COE, Providence, R. I. (14248). Son of John
P. Coe and Elizabeth K. Dowd ; grandson of Darius Coe and Thank-
ful Pierson ; great-grandson of Thomas Coe, private Rhode Island
Militia.
JOHN OLIVER DARLING, Providence, R. I. (14241). Son of George
Henry Darling and Maria Amelia Sweet; grandson of John
Adams Darling and Eliza Potter; great-grandson of Henry Pot-
ter and Mary Segar; great2-grandson of John Potter, Deputy Rhode
Island General Assembly.
JAMES HENRY EASTMAN, Howard, R. I. (14249). Son of Larnard
Lamb Eastman and Lucy Ann Currier; grandson of James East-
man and Polly French ; great-grandson of Stephen Eastman, drum-
mer Mass. troops.
SAMUEL JAMES FOSTER, Jr., Providence, R. I. (14242). Son of
Samuel James Foster and Anna Frances Stevenson; grandson of
Ebenezier Foster and Almira Orne ; great-grandson of Samuel Fos-
ter, Corporal Rhode Island troops, pensioned.
HENRY THATCHER FOWLER, Providence, R. I. (14247)- Son of
Milton A. Fowler and Catherine Putnam; grandson of Oren
Sikes and Julia Knox; great-grandson of Ebenezer Thatcher and
Lucy Flucker Knox; great2-grandson of Henry Knox, Major-General
of Artillery, Continental Army.
WILLIAM CONGDON FRY, Providence, R. I. ( 12669 V (Supplemental.)
Son of Charles Burleigh Fry and Frances Henrietta Phetteplace;
grandson of William Fry and Mary Wilson Cross; great-grandson
of John Cross, Jr., and Mary Hoxsie; great2-grandson of Gideon
Hoxsie, Lieutenant Colonel Rhode Island troops, Member of Coun-
cil of War.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS HUBBARD, Jr., Providence, R. I. ( 15479)-
Son of Charles Augustus Hubbard and Kate Horton Mathewson;
grandson of Joseph Mathewson and Betsy Burlingame; great-
grandson of Joseph Mathewson and Penelope Andrew ; great1-
grandson of Noah Mathewson, Deputy Rhode Island Assembly, Re-
cruiting Officer; great-grandson of Benedict Burlingame, Jr., pri-
vate Rhode Island troops, pensioned.
ADDISON PIERCE MUNROE, Providence, R. I. (14245). Son of
Philip A. Munroe and Delana Pierce; grandson of Isaac Pierce,
private Mass. Militia.
HENRY JOSHUA PAINE, Foster, R. I. (15478). Son of Joshua Paine
and Maria Rounds; grandson of Andrew Paine and Mary N.
Turner ; great-grandson of Zuriel Paine and Mary Weaver ; greaf-
grandson of Isaac Paine, Captain Rhode Island Militia.
WILLIAM LLOYD SLADE, Providence, R. I. (14246). Son of Obadiah
Slade and Hannah T. Munroe ; grandson of Lloyd Slade and Eliza
Lewin ; great-grandson of Peleg Slade, Lieutenant-Colonel Mass,
Continental troops, oensioned.
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ARBA DIKE SMITH, Providence, R. I. (14244)- Son of Daniel Angell
Smith and Mary Remington Armington ; grandson of Walker
Armington and Mercy Jenckes ; great-grandson of Jeremiah
Jenckes, Ensign Providence Rhode Island Militia.
WALTER HENRY STEARNS, Pawtucket, R. I. (14243). Son of Henry
Augustus Stearns and Kate Falconer ; grandson of Abner Stearns
and Anne Estabrook Russell ; great-grandson of Edward Stearns,
private Bedford Mass. Militia.
ALBERT HENRY WRIGHT, Providence, R. I. (14250). Son of Benja-
min Wright and Lucy Wells ; grandson of James Wells and Lydia
Manchester; great-grandson of James Wells, Lieutenant Sixth Rhode
Island Militia.
JAMES MANCHESTER WRIGHT, Clayville. R. I. (15476). Son of
Benjamin Wright and Lucy Wells ; grandson of James Wells and
Lydia Manchester ; great-grandson of James Wells, Lieutenant
Sixth Rhode Island Militia.
NATHAN MANCHESTER WRIGHT, Providence, R. I. ( 15477)- Son
of Albert Henry Wright and Mary Cunningham Mathewson ;
grandson of Benjamin Wright and Lucy Wells ; great-grandson of
James Wells and Lydia Manchester; great2-grandson of James
Wells, Lieutenant Sixth Rhode Island Militia.
TENNESSEE SOCIETY.
EDWARD PITKIN BRONSON, Nashville, Tenn. (14360). Son of
Pitkin Bronson and Sarah Scoville Merriam ; grandson of John
Bronson and Hannah Root ; great-grandson of Salmon Root, Cor-
poral Third Conn. Line.
JAMES PIERRE DROUILLARD, Nashville, Tenn. (13270). (Supple-
mental). Son of James Pierre Drouillard and May Florence Kirk-
man; grandson of Hugh Kirkman and Eleanora Chambers Van
Leer; great-grandson of Anthony Wayne Van Leer and Rebecca
C. Brady; great2-grandson of Samuel Van Leer, Captain Penna. Mi-
litia, Lieutenant Chester County Light Horse.
NATHAN WILLIS JONES, Columbia, Tenn. (14367). Son of Edward
Daniel Jones and Kitty Willis; grandson of Samuel Jones. Cap-
tain North Carolina troops, pensioned.
VERNER KLINE, Nashville, Tenn. (14362). Son of William Davis
Kline and Victoria Cooke; grandson of William A. Kline and
Nancy Younglove ; great-grandson of Isaah Younglove and Susan-
nah Yanney ; great2-grandson of David Younglove, Surgeon Tyron
County, New York, Militia, pensioned.
DANIEL A. LINDSEY, Nashville, Tenn. (14364). Son of Alonzo Lind-
sey and Etha Hagan ; grandson of Edward Newton Lindsey and
Solinah Bailey ; great-grandson of Edward Lindsey and Catherine
Higgins; great2-grandson of John Lindsey, Colonel South Carolina
Militia.
EDWARD A. LINDSEY, Nashville, Tenn. (14363). Son of Alonzo
Lindsey and Etha Hagan ; grandson of Edward Newton Lindsey
and Solinah Bailey; great-grandson of Edward Lindsey and Cath-
erine Higgins ; great2-grandson of John Lindsey, Colonel South
Carolina Militia.
WILLIAM HENRY LINDSEY, Nashville, Tenn. (14365). Son of Alonzo
Lindsey and Etha Hagan; grandson of Edward Newton Lindsey
and Solinah Bailey; great-grandson of Edward Lindsey and Cather-
ine Higgins; great2-grandson of John Lindsey, Colonel South Caro-
lina Militia.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 319
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER LIPSCOMB, Columbia, Tenn. (14368).
Son of George Lipscomb and Mary C. Lipscomb ; grandson of Archi-
bald Lipscomb, private Virginia Line, pensioned.
T. E. LIPSCOMB, Columbia, Tenn. (14369). Son of George Lipscomb
and Mary C. Lipscomb ; grandson of Archibald Lipscomb, private
Virginia Line, pensioned.
W. A. LIPSCOMB, Columbia, Tenn. (14370). Son of George Lipscomb
and Mary C. Lipscomb ; grandson of Archibald Lipscomb, private
Virginia Line, pensioned.
ROBERT LUSK, Nashville, Tenn. (14358). Son of Alfred Hume Lusk
and Elizabeth Clardy ; grandson of William Duncan Clardy and
Louise Oldham ; great-grandson of Moses Oldham and Nancy
Knox; great2-grandson of Benjamin Knox, private North Carolina
Militia, pensioned.
MATT MARSHALL MORGAN, Nashville, Tenn. ( 14357)- Son of
Robert Franklin Morgan and Mary Eliza Neil; grandson of
Newton Franklin Neil and Virginia E. Marshall; great-grandson
of Matt Martin Marshall and Eliza McEwen ; great2-grandson of
John Marshall and Mary Clay Martin ; great3-grandson of Matt
Martin, private Virginia and South Carolina troops.
JAMES KNOX POLK, Jr., Nashville, Tenn. (14371). Son of James
Knox Polk and Mary Francis Hebbler ; grandson of Marshall
Tate Polk and Evalina McNeal Bills; great-grandson of John
Houston Bills and Prudence McNeal ; great2-grandson of Thomas
McNeal and Clarissa Polk ; great3-grandson of Esekiel Polk, Cap-
tain South Carolina Continental Rangers.
ISAAC RHEA SANDERS, Nashville, Tenn. (14366). Son of Charles
Henry Sanders and Olive Branch; grandson of Kosiusko Branch
and Margaret Cayce ; great-grandson of William Bass Branch
and Louisa Magruda ; great2-grandson of Benjamin Branch, Captain
Chesterfield County, Virginia, Militia.
LARKIN SMITH, Nashville, Tenn. ( 14359)- Son of Albert J. Smith
and Louisa Minor Hough; grandson of Charles H. Smith and
Evelina Stone; great-grandson of Larkin Smith, Captain Fourth
Virginia Light Dragoons.
CARLOS C. VAN LEER, Washington, D. C. (14361). Son of Samuel
Van Leer and Alice Clark; grandson of Samuel Van Leer and
Amelia Terrass; great-grandson of Bernard Van Leer and Hannah
Heslop ; great2-grandson of Samuel Van Leer, Captain Fifth Bat-
talion Penna. Militia and Lieutenant Light Horse.
TEXAS SOCIETY.
WILLIAM GILMER BELL, Austin, Texas. (12842). Son of William
Harris Bell and Mary Berkeley Miller; grandson of John Gaines
Miller and Margaret Williams ; great-grandson of Thomas Lanier
Williams and Mary Lawson McClung ; great2-grandson of Joseph
Williams, Colonel North Carolina Militia.
CLAY STONE BRIGGS, Galveston, Texas. (12843). Son of George D.
Briggs and Olive Branch ; grandson of Edward Thomas Branch
and Anne Wharton Cleveland ; great-grandson of Thomas Branch
and Mary Walker; great2-grandson of Edward Branch, Lieutenant
Chesterfield County Virginia Militia.
CHARLES LEE JESTER, Corsicana, Texas. (12846). Son of Charles
Wesley Jester and Eliza Rakestraw; grandson of Levi Jester and
Diadema McKinney ; great-grandson of Hampton McKinney and
320 NATIONAL SOCIETY
Mary Barnes Clark; great2-grandson of John McKinney, private,
Morgan's Rifle Reg't, Corporal and Spy South Carolina troops.
WELLS CLIFFORD MORRILL, Austin, Texas. (12841). Son of Jere-
miah Quincy Morrill and Mariah A. Wells; grandson of Phil-
lip Morrill and Judith Fuller ; great-grandson of Jeremiah Morrill,
Sergeant Mass. Continental troops, pensioned.
LUCIUS J. POLK, Galveston, Texas. (12844). Son of # Lucius J. Polk
and Anne Erwin; grandson of William Polk, Lieutenant-Colonel
North Carolina troops ; great-grandson of Thomas Polk, Signer of
Mechlenburg Declaration of Independence.
HERBERT ALLAIRE ROBERTSON, Jr., Galveston, Texas. (12847).
Son of Herbert Allaire Robertson and Mildred Maury; grandson
of Robert Emmet Maury and Charlotte M. Ingraham; great-grand-
son of Alfred Ingraham and Elisabeth M. Meade; great2-grandson
of Francis Ingraham and Elisabeth Duffield; great3-grandson of
Duncan Ingraham, private Mass. Continental troops.
WILLIAM SELKIRK, Galveston, Texas. (12848). Son of James Henry
Selkirk and Lucy Hall ; grandson of William Selkirk and Matilda
Hallenbake; great-grandson of James Selkirk, Sergeant Second
New York Line.
WILLIAM MANN SELKIRK, Galveston, Texas. (12849). Son of Wil-
liam Selkirk and Louisa Redmond Mann; grandson of James
Henry Selkirk and Lucy Hall; great-grandson of William Sel-
kirk and Matilda Hallenbake; great2-grandson of James Selkirk,
Sergeant Second New York Line.
WYATT OWEN SELKIRK, Galveston, Texas. (12850). Son of William
Selkirk and Louisa Redmond Mann; grandson of James Henry
Selkirk and Lucy Hall; great-grandson of William Selkirk and
Matilda Hallenbake; great2-grandson of James Selkirk, Sergeant
Second New York Line.
HARRY ALLEN WILSON, San Antonio, Texas (12845). Son of John
Wesley Wilson and Susannah Allen; grandson of Michael As-
bury Wilson and Elizabeth Gillespie; great-grandson of William
Wilson, private and Sergeant Maryland Line, pensioned.
UTAH SOCIETY.
[Organized January 29, 1895, not January 27, 1897, as given in the
National Register.]
MORTIMER SENTER ALLEN, Salt Lake City, Utah (11643). Son of
Joel F. Allen and Frances A. Senter; grandson of Mortimer
Delville Senter and Mary Rebecca Colt; great-grandson of John
Tufts Senter; great2-grandson of Asa Senter, Captain New Hamp-
shire Troops.
GEORGE JAY GIBSON, Salt Lake City, Utah (11644). Son of George
J. Gibson and Caroline Scovill; grandson of Oliver Scovill and
Adeline Clarke; great-grandson of Philo Scovill and Jemimah
Bixby; great2-grandson of Timothy Scovill, private Conn. Troops,
pensioned.
CYRUS LIVINGSTON HAWLEY, Salt Lake City, Utah (11646). Son
of Cyrus Hawley and Elizabeth A. Wesson; grandson of Earl
Percival Hawley and Irene Frisbie; great-grandson of David
Frisbie and Mary Exerit; great2-grandson of Dariel Excrit, Mem-
ber Committee of Inspection and Observation of Woodbury, Conn.
GEORGE RUST, Salt Lake City, Utah (11648), Son of Armistead T.
M. Rust and Ida Lee; grandson of Edmund Jennings Lee and
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 321
Henrietta Bedinger; great-grandson of Edmund Jennings Lee;
great2-grandson of Richard Henry Lee, Signer of Declaration of In-
dependence ; great-grandson of Daniel Bedinger (and Sarah Ruther-
ford), Captain Virginia Line; great2-grandson of Robert Ruther-
ford, Member Virginia Convention, 1776.
EDWARD VERNON SILVER, Salt Lake City, Utah (11645)-' Son of
Charles Alexander Silver and Helen Lydia Mann; grandson of
Nathaniel Mann and Mary Mason; great-grandson of Jonathan
Mason, private Conn., Mass. and New Hampshire Continental
Troops, pensioned.
BENNER X. SMITH, Salt Lake City, Utah (11649). Son of Arthur
A. Smith and Mary Benner ; grandson of Erastus Smith and
Martha Hulick; great-grandson of John Hulick, Orderly Sergeant
Middlesex County, New Jersey, State Troops.
ASHBY SNOW, Salt Lake City, Utah (11647). Son of Erastus Snow
and Elizabeth Rebecca Ashby; grandson of Levi Snow and Lu-
cina Streeter ; great-grandson of Zerubbable Snow and Mary Trow-
bridge; great2-grandson of John Snow, recognized patriot of Ches-
Hampshire.
VERMONT SOCIETY. J
GEORGE GRENVILLE (not Brenville) BENEDICT, Burlington, Vt.
(2703). (Correction of Register.)
IRA G. BLAKE, Worcester, Mass. (14219). Son of Ira Blake and
Abagail Bailey; grandson of Henry Blake, Drum-Major New
Hampshire Continental Troops; great-grandson of Henry Blake,
Corporal New Hampshire Continental Troops.
EDMUND TOWLE BROWN, Montgomery Center, Vt. (14217)- Son
of Josiah Brown and Sarah E. Towle ; grandson of Edmund Brown
and Sarah Hodgdon ; great-grandson of Thomas Brown and Nancy
Mallon ; great2-grandson of James Mallon, Captain Essex County..
Mass., Militia.
ARTHUR FRANCIS CHILD (not CHILDS), St. Albans, Vt. (2918),
Son of George T. Child, not Childs.
CHARLES EDGAR CLARK, U. S. Navy, Naval Soldiers' Home, Phil-
adelphia, Pa. (15452). Son of James Dayton Clark and Mary
Sexton ; grandson of Charles Clark and Harriet Dayton ; great-
grandson of Thomas Clark, private, Brook's Mass. Reg't, Represen-
tative Mass. General Court.
CHARLES ALLEN CONVERSE, Philadelphia, Pa. (2916). (Supple-
mental.) Son of John Kendrick Converse and Sarah Allen;
grandson of Joel Converse and Elizabeth Bixby ; great-grandson of
Jonathan Bixby, Captain Conn. Militia.
DANIEL BURNS DYER, Augusta, Ga. (15453). Son of George Ran-
dolph Dyer and Elizabeth Howe Kimball; grandson of Daniel
Dyer and Susannah Olin; great-grandson of Gideon Olin, Major
Second Vermont Reg't, Member Vermont General Assembly.
WILLARD FARMAN, Westfield, Vt. (14216). Son of Herod Farman
and Eloisa Hitchcock; grandson of Heber Hitchcock and Lydia
Winslow ; great-grandson of Medad Hitchcock, private Mass.
Militia.
ERWIN MAURICE HARVEY, Montpelier, Vt. (14220). Son of Rouey
M. Harvey and Cora I. Bill; grandson of Roswell M. Bill and
Merinda Nelson; great-grandson of Eliphalet M. Bill and Rhoda
Pitkin; great2-grandson of Eliphalet Bill and Dorothy Marsh;
322 NATIONAL SOCIETY
great3-grandson of Joseph Marsh, Colonel Cumberland County, Ver-
mont, Militia.
HERMON DEMING HOPKINS, Montpelier, Vt. (14224). Son of Her-
mon Danforth Hopkins and Caroline Samantha Spaulding; grand-
son of Henry Hopkins and Lois Blaisdell; great-grandson of
Henry Hopkins and Sarah Fay; great2-grandson of Weight Hop-
kins, Captain Ethan Allen and Seth Warner's Reg't Green Moun-
tain Boys, killed in service, July 15, 1770.
HARRY STINSON HOWARD, Burlington, Vt. (14222). Son of
Oliver Otis Howard and Elisabeth Ann Waite ; grandson of Row-
land Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis ; great-grandson of Seth How-
ard, private, Carey's Mass. Reg't ; great'-grandson of Jesse Howard,
Second Lieutenant Mass. Militia.
HARLAN W. KEMP, Montpelier, Vt. (14221). Son of Phineas A.
Kemp and Betsey Blanchard ; grandson of Lemuel Blanchard,
private, Porter's Hampshire County, Mass., Reg't.
GUY C. LAMSON, Montpelier, Vt. (15451). Son of Caleb B. Lamson
and Phila L. Holden; grandson of Justus C. Holden and Philena
S. Rice ; great-grandson of Ephraim Rice and Betsy Maynard ;
great2-grandson of Ephraim Rice, private Seventh Mass. Reg't, pen-
sioned.
LUMAN (not LAMAN) P. NORTON, Bennington, Vt. (2873). (Cor-
rection of National Register. )
JOHN TAYLOR SHURTLEFF (not SHURTLJFF), Bennington, Vt.
(2476). Son of J. B. Shurtleff and Elizabeth Taylor; grandson of
Bcnora Shurtleff, private Mass. Militia. (Correction of National
Register.)
CORTEZ J. SLAYTON, Morrisville, Vt. (14223). Sor, of George Jo-
sephus Slayton and Fannie Andrews ; grandson of Bucklin
Slayton and Sally Willis; great-grandson of Jesse Slayton and
Betsey Bucklin; great2-grandson of Phineas Slayton. Corporal Mass.
Militia.
WILLIAM TAFT SLAYTON, Hyde Park, Vt. (14225). Son of Aro
Phineas Slayton and Lucy Blanchard White ; grandson of Buck
lin Slayton and Sally Willis ; great-grandson of Jesse Slayton
and Betsey Bucklin; great2-grandson of Phineas Slayton. Corporal
Mass. Militia.
WILLIAM WALLACE STICKNEY, Ludlow, Vt. (14218). Son of
John Winslow Stickney and Ann Pinney; grandson of John
Stickney and Celia Thatcher; great-grandson of William Stickney,
Jr., Lieutenant, Mcintosh's Mass. Reg't; great2-grandson of Will-
iam Stickney, Member Mass. Provincial Congress and General
Court ; great-grandson of Joseph Thatcher, private New Hampshire
Continental Troops.
EDWIN SAWYER WALKER, Springfield, 111. (2893). (Supplemental.)
Son of Sawyer Walker and Malinda Gile; grandson of Jesse
Walker and Prudence Sawyer; great-grandson of Thomas Sawyer,
private Mass. Militia, Captain Vermont Minute Men; grandson of
Moses Gile. Jr., and Elizabeth Gilkey ; great-grandson of Moses
Gile, Member of Chester, Vermont, Standing Committee of Corre-
spondence, private, Joseph Little's Company, Vermont Militia.
VIRGINIA SOCIETY.
FREDERICK AUNSPAUGH (not AMSPAUGH), Norfolk \a.
(10374). (Correction of National Register.)
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 323
LUNSFORD LOMAX LEWIS, Richmond, Va. (1772). (Correction of
Register). Son of Samuuel Hance (not House) Lewis and Anna
Maria Lomax; grandson of Charles Lewis and Anna Hance, etc.
RICHMOND TERRELL LACY, Richmond, Va. (10375). Son of Rich-
mond Terrell Lacy and Ellen Green Lane ; grandson of William
Lacy and Lucy Terrell; great-grandson of Richmond Terrell and
Ann Holt ; great2-grandson of Thomas Holt, Captain Virginia Con-
tinental Line.
PLEASANT LARUS REED, Richmond, Va. (15326). Son of William
Block Reed and Mary Ann Larus; grandson of Elias Reed and
Sally Block; great-grandson of John Reed, Sergeant Mass. Militia.
WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
FRANCIS LEWIS CLARK, Spokane, Wash. (15027). Son of Jonathan
Greenleaf Clark and Harriet Brown; grandson of Joseph Brown
and Elizabeth Means ; great-grandson of Joseph Brown and Mary
Pilsbury ; great'grandson of Moses Brown, Commander of Mass.
ships "General Arnold" and "Minerva."
DANIEL H. DWIGHT, Spokane, Wash. (14023). Son of Daniel
Dwight and Mary E. Dwight ; grandson of Daniel Dwight and
Susan Lippitt ; great-grandson of Moses Lippitt, private Rhode
Island Troops.
HENRY C. OLNEY, Spokane, Wash. (14022). Son of Ceylon Whip-
ple Olney and Emiline Adams; grandson of Joseph Adams and
Azubah Henry; great-grandson of Samuel Adams and Sarah Felt;
great2-grandson of Samuel Adams, private Mass. and New Hamp-
shire Continental Troops.
W. P. SIMONDS, Chehalis, Wis. (15026). Son of Daniel Simonds and
Susan White; grandson of Andrew White, Corporal New Hamp-
shire Continental Troops.
R. ALVIN WEISS, Seattle, Wash. (14024). Son of R. A. Weiss and
Lilly Wagner; grandson of Adam Weiss and Amy Kresge; great-
grandson of Henry Weiss and Mary Hufsmith ; great2-grandson of
Henry Wise, private Second Penna. Line.
WILLIAM PARKHURST WINANS, Walla Walla, Wash. (14025).
Son of Jonas Wood Winans and Sarah Stiles; grandson of John
Stiles and Phebe Crane; great-grandson of Jacob Crane, Lieuten-
ant-Colonel New Jersey State Troops; great2-grandson of Stephen
Crane, Member of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Committee of Safety;
grandson of Moses Winans, private Essex County, New Jersey,
Militia.
WISCONSIN SOCIETY.
ARTHUR S. BOSTWICK, Eau Claire, Wis. ( 13450) • Son of Martin
Chittenden Bostwick and Lucy Hathaway; grandson of Arthur
Bostwick and Sally Clark; great-grandson of Isaac Clark and
Hannah Chittenden ; great2-grandson of Thomas Chittenden, Presi-
dent of Council Safety, Governor of Vermont.
WINFIELD HENRY CAMERON, Milwaukee, Wis. (13443)- Son of
Winfield Scott Cameron and Imogene Payne; grandson of John
Armstrong Cameron and Harmony Hitchcock; great-grandson of
Samuel Hitchcock and Polly McCormick ; great2-grandson of John
McCormick, private Mass. Troops, pensioned; grandson of Orrin
Pierre Payne and Eliza Amase ; great-grandson of Samuel Payne
and Laura Elmer ; great2-grandson of Joseph Paine and Anna Bil-
lings ; great3-grandson of Joseph Ruggles Paine, private Porter's
Reg't' Hampshire County, Mass., Troops.
324 NATIONAL SOCIETY
HENRI B. COLE, Black River Falls, Wis. (15276). Son of Alfred B.
Cole and Calista Wilson ; grandson of Obed Cole and Lydia Bald-
win; great-grandson of Elisha Cole, private Seventh Dutchess
County, New York, Militia.
CHARLES D. CRANE, Milwaukee, Wis. ( 13449)- Son of Moses Lyon
Crane and Susan Pond Chase; grandson of Asa Crane and Cath-
erine Lyon; great-grandson of Isaac Crane, private Conn. Militia.
THOMAS WELLS FERGUSON, Milwaukee, Wis. (13446). Son of
Edward Ferguson and Marcia Bryant Brown; grandson of William
Brown, Jr., and Susan Judith Sweetser Wells ; great-grandson of
Daniel Wells and Susannah Sweetser ; great2-grandson of Richard
Sweetser, Sergeant, Phinney's Mass. Reg't, pensioned.
HARRY HOLDER GRACE, West Superior, Wis. (13448). Son of
Robert H. Grace and Caroline Louisa Hicks; grandson of Joseph
Hicks and Catherine L. Van Benschoten; great-grandson of Elias
E. Van Benschoten and Marie Du Bois ; great2-grandson of Elias
Van Benschoten, Major, Willet's New York Reg't; greaf-grandson
of Elias Van Benschoten, Major First New York Levies.
LEWIS HOFFMAN KEMPER, Nashotah, Wisconsin (15277). Son of
Samuel Relf Kemper and Mary Anne Wiseman; grandson of
Bishop Jackson Kemper and Ann Relf; great-grandson of Daniel
Kemper, Lieutenant, Deputy Clothier-General New York Continen-
tal Troops, pensioned.
LOUIS HENRY MEAD, Shell Lake, Wis. (13442). Son of W. Preston
Mead and Julia H. Morrill ; grandson of Martin Mead and Mehe-
tabel Packard ; great-grandson of Martin Mead and Freelove
Wright ; great2-grandson of Zebulon Mead, scout, Warren's Ver-
mont Reg't.
SUMNER KIMBALL PRESCOTT, Marinette, Wis. ( 13445)- Son of
De Witt Clinton Prescott and Sarah Holgate; grandson of Dan-
iel Kimball Prescott and Lorenda Lang; great-grandson of Jere-
miah Prescott and Molly Sanborn; greats-grandson of Jeremiah
Prescott, Captain New Hampshire Militia.
HENRY PALMER RUSLING, Racine, Wis. (13447). Son of Joseph
Fowler Rusling and Stella Shumaker Orton ; grandson of Mil-
ton Pardee Orton and Maria Lindsley Ford; great-grandson of
James Ford and Maria Lindsley ; great2-grandson of Eleazer
Lindsley and Eunice Halsey; great3-grandson of Eleazer Lindsley,
Lieutenant-Colonel Fifth Battalion New Jersey Line, Member New
Jersey Legislature.
HORACE MARTIN SEAMAN, Milwaukee, Wis. (13444). Son of Ga-
len Benjamin Seaman and Harriet Martin ; grandson of Stod-
dard Hurd Martin and Lucy Kitchel ; great-grandson of Stoddard
Martin and Abigail Squire ; great2-grandson of Reuben Martin,
private Fifth Conn. Foot.
ALBERT KELLOGG STEBBINS, Milwaukee, Wis. (15278). Son of
Lemuel Dibble Stebbins and Georgia Anna Green; grandson of
Daniel Kellogg Green and Catharine Sawyer ; great-grandson of
Lewis Green and Sally Nash ; great2-grandson of Augustus Green,
Second Lieutenant Seventh New York Militia, Kinderhook District.
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